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"This is a highly accessible, comprehensive introduction to item response theory (IRT) models and their use in various aspects of assessment/testing. The book employs a mixture of graphics and simulated data sets to ease the reader into the material and covers the basics required to obtain a solid grounding in IRT. Written in an easily accessible way that assumes little mathematical knowledge, Carlson presents detailed descriptions of several commonly used IRT models, including those for items scored on a two-point (dichotomous) scale such as correct/incorrect, and those scored on multiple-point (polytomous) scales, such as degrees of correctness. One chapter describes a model in-depth and is followed by a chapter of instructions and illustrations showing how to apply the models to the reader's own work. This book is an essential text for instructors and higher level undergraduate and postgraduate students of statistics, psychometrics, and measurement theory across the behavioral and social sciences, as well as testing professionals"--

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"To date, much of the application of IRT has been in the field of educational measurement, where for example, IRT has been used extensively by the Educational Testing Service for the development of scholastic aptitude tests. IRT has played a major role in all major college and graduate school admission tests (SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, MCAT, ...). Unlike traditional tests based on classical test theory that summarizes the test result by a simple counting operation of number of correct responses, IRT provides model-based measurements in which the difficulty of the items, discrimination of high and low levels of the underlying latent variable(s) and the corresponding ability of the respondents can be estimated. In IRT scoring of tests, a certain number of items can be arbitrarily added, deleted, or replaced without losing comparability of scores on the scale. Only the precision of measurement at some points on the scale is affected. This property of scaled measurement, as opposed to counts of events, is the most salient advantage of IRT over classical methods of educational and psychological measurement. The evolution of IRT is now going beyond educational measurement. Recent advances in multidimensional extensions of IRT and computerized adaptive testing are leading to major advances in patient reported outcome measures of physical and emotional well being. In mental health research, IRT is now leading to a major paradigm shift in the screening and measurement of mental health disorders, substance abuse and suicidality, one of the leading causes of death in the world. Multidimensional IRT extends the tools used to evaluate essentially unidimensional constructs such as mathematical ability to the measurement of complex traits such as depression, anxiety and psychosis. In the next five years we expect that the use of multidimensional IRT for the measurement of complex traits will extend to other areas of health sciences and to problems in marketing research and practice where rapid adaptive tests administered through the internet will be able to precisiely measure consumer affinity for different products, events, and market sectors. The methods described in this book will provide the foundation for these future developments"--

Item response theory. --- Psychology --- Mathematical models.

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Item-response theory (IRT) represents a key advance in measurement theory. Yet, it is largely absent from curricula, textbooks and popular statistical software, and often introduced through a subset of models. This Element, intended for creativity and innovation researchers, researchers-in-training, and anyone interested in how individual creativity might be measured, aims to provide 1) an overview of classical test theory (CTT) and its shortcomings in creativity measurement situations (e.g., fluency scores, consensual assessment technique, etc.); 2) an introduction to IRT and its core concepts, using a broad view of IRT that notably sees CTT models as particular cases of IRT; 3) a practical strategic approach to IRT modeling; 4) example applications of this strategy from creativity research and the associated advantages; and 5) ideas for future work that could advance how IRT could better benefit creativity research, as well as connections with other popular frameworks.

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Food security --- Food supply --- Rasch models. --- Item response theory.