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SUBMITTER: Park M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6713983 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Educational and psychological measurement 20190215 5
Item response tree (IRTree) models are recently introduced as an approach to modeling response data from Likert-type rating scales. IRTree models are particularly useful to capture a variety of individuals' behaviors involving in item responding. This study employed IRTree models to investigate response styles, which are individuals' tendencies to prefer or avoid certain response categories in a rating scale. Specifically, we introduced two types of IRTree models, descriptive and explanatory mod ...[more]