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Multidimensional Item Response Theory Models

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As the previous chapters suggest, it is not difficult to conceive of test items that require more than one hypothetical construct to determine the correct response. However, when describing multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models, care should be taken to distinguish between dimensions as defined by MIRT models, which represent statistical abstractions of the observed data, and the hypothetical constructs that represent cognitive or affective dimensions of variation in a population of examinees. The earlier chapters present some of those distinctions. This chapter will elaborate on the distinctions between coordinates and constructs and the distinctions will be given additional treatment in Chaps. 6 and 7.

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    Whitely now publishes under the name Embretson

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Reckase, M.D. (2009). Multidimensional Item Response Theory Models. In: Multidimensional Item Response Theory. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-89976-3_4

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