Handbook of Polytomous Item Response Theory Models

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
PART I: DEVELOPMENT 
OF POLYTOMOUS IRT MODELS......Page 12
CHAPTER 1 New Perspectives and Applications......Page 14
CHAPTER 2 IRT Models for the Analysis of Polytomously scored Data: Brief and Selected History of Model Building Advances......Page 32
CHAPTER 3 The Nominal Categories Item Response Model......Page 54
CHAPTER 4 The General Graded Response Model......Page 88
CHAPTER 5 The Partial Credit Model......Page 120
CHAPTER 6 Understanding the Response Structure and Process in the Polytomous Rasch Model......Page 134
PART II: POLYTOMOUS IRT MODEL EVALUATION......Page 164
CHAPTER 7 Factor Analysis of Categorical Item Responses......Page 166
CHAPTER 8 Testing Fit to IRT models for Polytomously Scored Items......Page 196
PART III: APPLICATION OF POLYTOMOUS IRT MODELS......Page 220
CHAPTER 9 An Application of the Polytomous Rasch Model to Mixed Strategies......Page 222
CHAPTER 10 Polytomous Models in Computerized Adaptive Testing......Page 240
CHAPTER 11 Equating With Polytomous Item Response Models......Page 268
Index......Page 304