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SUBMITTER: Huang HY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5978597 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied psychological measurement 20150115 5
In educational and psychological testing, individuals are often repeatedly measured to assess the changes in their abilities over time or their latent trait growth. If a test consists of several subtests, the latent traits may have a higher order structure, and traditional item response theory (IRT) models for longitudinal data are no longer applicable. In this study, various multilevel higher order item response theory (ML-HIRT) models for simultaneously measuring growth in the second- and firs ...[more]