Item information and discrimination functions for trinary pcm items |
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Authors: | Wies Akkermans Eiji Muraki |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Education, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands;(2) Educational Testing Service, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | For trinary partial credit items the shape of the item information and the item discrimination function is examined in relation to the item parameters. In particular, it is shown that these functions are unimodal if 2 – 1 < 4 ln 2 and bimodal otherwi The locations and values of the maxima are derived. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the value of the maximum is decreasing in 2 – 1. Consequently, the maximum of a unimodal item information function is always larger than the maximum of a bimodal one, and similarly for the item discrimination function.The work reported herein was partially supported under the National Assessment of Educational Progress (Grant No. R999G30002; CFDA No. 84.999G) as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, US Department of Education. |
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Keywords: | partial credit model trinary items item information function item discrimination function maximum item information |
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