Item Response Theory: Parameter Estimation Techniques, Second Edition

by B. Baker Frank and Frank B. Baker

Book Overview

Item Response Theory clearly describes the most recently developed IRT models and furnishes detailed explanations of algorithms that can be used to estimate the item or ability parameters under various IRT models. Extensively revised and expanded, this edition offers three new chapters discussing parameter estimation with multiple groups, parameter estimation for a test with mixed item types, and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. It includes discussions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824758250
• ISBN13: 9780824758257
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"