1st Edition
Handbook of Item Response Theory Volume 3: Applications
Section I Item Calibration and Analysis
1. Item-Calibration Designs
[Martijn P. F. Berger]
2. Parameter Linking
[Wim J. van der Linden and Michelle D. Barrett]
3. Dimensionality Analysis
[Robert D. Gibbons and Li Cai]
4. Differential Item Functioning
[Dani Gamerman, Flávio B. Gonçalves, and Tufi M. Soares]
5. Calibrating Technology-Enhanced Items
[Richard M. Luecht]
Section II Person Fit and Scoring
6. Person Fit
[Cees A. W. Glas and Naveed Khalid]
7. Score Reporting and Interpretation
[Ronald K. Hambleton and April L. Zenisky]
8. IRT Observed-Score Equating
[Wim J. van der Linden]
Section III Test Design
9. Optimal Test Design
[Wim J. van der Linden]
10. Adaptive Testing
[Wim J. van der Linden]
11. Standard Setting
Daniel Lewis and Jennifer Lord-Bessen
12. Test Speededness and Time Limits
[Wim J. van der Linden]
13. Item and Test Security
[Wim J. van der Linden]
Section IV Areas of Application
14. Large-Scale Group-Score Assessments
[John Mazzeo]
15. Psychological Testing
[Paul De Boeck]
16. Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment
[Chun Wang and Hua-Hua Chang]
17. Health Measurement
[Richard C. Gershon, Ron D. Hays, and Michael A. Kallen]
18. Marketing Research
[Martijn G. de Jong and Ulf Böckenholt]
19. Measuring Change Using Rasch Models
[Gerhard H. Fischer]
Section V Computer Programs
20. IRT Packages in R
[Thomas Rusch, Patrick Mair, and Reinhold Hatzinger]
21. Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling (BUGS) for IRT Models
[Matthew S. Johnson]
22. BILOG-MG
[Michele F. Zimowski]
23. PARSCALE
[Eiji Muraki]
24. IRTPRO
[Li Cai]
25. Xcalibre 4
[Nathan A. Thompson and Jieun Lee]
26. EQSIRT
[Peter M. Bentler, Eric Wu, and Patrick Mair]
27. ACER ConQuest
[Raymond J. Adams, Margaret L. Wu, and Mark R. Wilson]
28. Mplus
[Bengt Muthén and Linda Muthén]
29. gllamm
[Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal]
30. Latent GOLD
[Jeroen K. Vermunt]
31. WinGen
[Kyung (Chris) T. Han]
32. Firestar
[Seung W. Choi]
33. jMetrik
[J. Patrick Meyer]
Biography
Wim J. van der Linden is a distinguished scientist and director of research and innovation at Pacific Metrics Corporation. Dr. van der Linden is also a professor emeritus of measurement and data analysis at the University of Twente. His research interests include test theory, adaptive testing, optimal test assembly, parameter linking, test equating, and response-time modeling as well as decision theory and its applications to problems of educational decision making.
"The references are up to date and very comprehensive in all chapters. The Appendices A and B are very rich and useful for students and researchers."
~Emiliana Ursianu, Zentralblatt MATH
