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The MC-DINA model is a cognitive diagnosis model (CDM) for multiple-choice items that was introduced by de la Torre (2009). The model extends the usual CDM in two basic ways: it allows for nominal responses instead of only dichotomous responses, and it ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Volume 49, Issue 1-2, Page 3-28, March 2025.
Cognitive Diagnosis Models in educational measurement are restricted latent class models that describe ability in a knowledge domain as a composite of latent skills an examinee may have mastered or failed. Different combinations of skills define distinct ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Volume 49, Issue 1-2, Page 29-49, March 2025.
The design of an achievement test is crucial for many reasons. This article focuses on a population’s ability growth between school grades. We define design as the allocating of test items concerning the difficulties. The objective is to present an ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Volume 49, Issue 1-2, Page 50-70, March 2025.
One of the main concerns in multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) is to detect the relationship between items and latent traits, which can be treated as a latent variable selection problem. An attractive method for latent variable selection in ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Methods for detecting item parameter drift may be inadequate when every exposed item is at risk for drift. To address this scenario, a strategy for detecting item parameter drift is proposed that uses only unexposed items deployed in a stratified random ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
This article suggests a new approach based on Bayesian decision theory (e.g., Cronbach & Gleser, 1965; Ferguson, 1967) for detection of test fraud. The approach leads to a simple decision rule that involves the computation of the posterior probability ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Under the theory of sequential design, compound optimal design with two optimality criteria can be used to solve the problem of efficient calibration of item parameters of item response theory model. In order to efficiently calibrate item parameters in ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Item preknowledge refers to the case where examinees have advanced knowledge of test material prior to taking the examination. When examinees have item preknowledge, the scores that result from those item responses are not true reflections of the examinee’...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
To maintain test quality, a large supply of items is typically desired. Automatic item generation can result in a reduction in cost and labor, especially if the generated items have predictable item parameters and thus possibly reducing or eliminating the ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Romero et al. (2015; see also Wollack, 1997) developed theωstatistic as a method for detecting unusually similar answers between pairs of examinees. For each pair, theωstatistic considers whether the observed number of similar answers is significantly ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Published information is limited regarding the security of testing programs, and even less on the relative security of different testing modalities: in-person at test centers (TC) versus remote online proctored (OP) testing. This article begins by ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Many studies on differential item functioning (DIF) detection rely on single detection methods (SDMs), each of which necessitates specific assumptions that may not always be validated. Using an inappropriate SDM can lead to diminished accuracy in DIF ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Modifications of current psychometric models for analyzing test data are proposed that produce an additive scale measure of information. This information measure is a one-dimensional space curve or curved surface manifold that is invariant across varying ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
In psychological and educational measurement, a testlet-based test is a common and popular format, especially in some large-scale assessments. In modeling testlet effects, a standard bifactor model, as a common strategy, assumes different testlet effects ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Adaptive measurement of change (AMC) uses computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to measure and test the significance of intraindividual change on one or more latent traits. The extant AMC research has so far assumed that item parameter values are constant ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
This study compared maximum a posteriori (MAP), expected a posteriori (EAP), and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approaches to computing person scores from the Multi-Unidimensional Pairwise Preference Model. The MCMC approach used the No-U-Turn sampling (...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
Response time (RT) has been an essential resource for supplementing the estimation accuracy of latent traits and item parameters in educational testing. Most item response theory (IRT) approaches are based on parametric RT models. However, since test ...

Applied Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
When using Likert scales, the inclusion of a middle-category response option poses a challenge for the valid measurement of the psychological attribute of interest. While this middle category is often included to provide respondents with a neutral ...

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