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This paper discusses some recent developments in a new methodology for the social sciences being developed jointly by the authors. The methodology is called cultural consensus analysis, and it is designed to aggregate informant responses to test items about their common culture. The object is to determine correct knowledge about the nature of that culture. Our methods estimate informant competency parameters and “correct” answers to each item from the informant response data. The methodology is designed for anthropological field studies and related research designs. This paper studies the consequences of relaxing the axioms of our model for dichotomous items, and it presents new models for other testing formats.
Work on this paper was supported by NSF Grant No. SES-8808358 to the authors.
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Batchelder, W.H., Romney, A.K. (1989). New Results in Test Theory Without an Answer Key. In: Roskam, E.E. (eds) Mathematical Psychology in Progress. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83943-6_15
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