Beschreibung:
"It is highly recommended to researchers, academics, and practitioners working in the social and behavioural sciences. The book is a stupendous amalgamation of various esteemed researchers in the field of IRT and it would not be wrong to say that 'it is a bible of IRT'."~Ashwani KumarMishra, ISCB
Section I Item Calibration and Analysis 1. Item-Calibration Designs 2. Parameter Linking 3. Dimensionality Analysis 4. Differential Item Functioning 5. Calibrating Technology-Enhanced Items Section II Person Fit and Scoring 6. Person Fit 7. Score Reporting and Interpretation 8. IRT Observed-Score Equating Section III Test Design 9. Optimal Test Design 10. Adaptive Testing 11. Standard Setting 12. Test Speededness and Time Limits 13. Item and Test Security Section IV Areas of Application 14. Large-Scale Group-Score Assessments 15. Psychological Testing 16. Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment 17. Health Measurement 18. Marketing Research 19. Measuring Change Using Rasch Models Section V Computer Programs 20. IRT Packages in R 21. Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling (BUGS) for IRT Models 22. BILOG-MG 23. PARSCALE 24. IRTPRO 25. Xcalibre 4 26. EQSIRT 27. ACER ConQuest 28. Mplus 29. gllamm 30. Latent GOLD 31. WinGen 32. Firestar 33. jMetrik