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SUBMITTER: Falk CF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8721622 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Falk Carl F CF Feuerstahler Leah M LM
Educational and psychological measurement 20210518 1
Large-scale assessments often use a computer adaptive test (CAT) for selection of items and for scoring respondents. Such tests often assume a parametric form for the relationship between item responses and the underlying construct. Although semi- and nonparametric response functions could be used, there is scant research on their performance in a CAT. In this work, we compare parametric response functions versus those estimated using kernel smoothing and a logistic function of a monotonic polyn ...[more]