Journal of Applied Measurement
P.O. Box 1283
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Table of Contents
Vol.
1, No. 1, Spring 2000
Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:
Scaling
and Standard Setting using Rasch Measurement
Everett V. Smith, Jr. and Brian D. Johnson
An
Investigation
of Factors Affecting Test Equating in Latent Trait Theory
Surintorn Suanthong,Randall E. Schumacker, and Michael
M. Beyerlein
An Approach
to Studying Scale for Students in Higher Education:
A Rasch
Measurement Model Analysis
Russell F. Waugh, Teck Kiong Hii, and Atique
Islam
Modeling
Effects of Differential Item Functioning in Polytomous Items
Wen-Chung Wang
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Rasch Models Overview
Benjamin D. Wright and Magdalena Mok
Vol.
1, No. 2, Summer 2000
Development
of a Nutritional Self-Efficacy Scale for Prospective
Physicians
Jessica A. Schulman and Edward W. Wolfe
The Impact
of Receiving the Same Items on Consecutive Computer Adaptive Test
Administrations
Thomas O’Neill, Mary E. Lunz, and Keith
Thiede
A Critique
of Rasch Residual Fit Statistics
George Karabatsos
Construct
Validity of Scores/Measures from a Developmental Assessment of Mathematics
using Classical and Many-Facet Rasch Measurement
Madhabi Banerji
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Fit Analysis
in Latent Trait Measurement Models
Richard M. Smith
Vol.
1, No. 3, Fall 2000
Development
of a Scale for Measuring Invasive Plant Environmentalism
Edward W. Wolfe and Hallie Dozier
Factorial
Modeling of Differential Distractor Functioning in Multiple-Choice
Items
Wen-Chung Wang
Measurement
of Cognitive Performance in Computer Programming Concept Acquisition: Interactive
Effects of Visual Metaphors and the Cognitive Style
Construct
Elspeth McKay
CAT
Administration
of Language Placement Examinations
John Stahl, Betty Bergstrom, and Richard
Gershon
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Metric Development and Score Reporting in Rasch
Measurement
Everett V. Smith, Jr.
The Social
Physique Anaxiety Scale: An
Example of the Potential Consequences of Negatively Worded Items in Factorial
Validity Studies
Robert W. Motl, David E. Conroy, and Patrick M.
Horan
Moral and
Evaluative Reasoning Across the Life-span
Theo Linda Dawson
Methodological
Issues in Using the Rasch Model to Select Cross Culturally Equivalent Items
in Order to Develop a Quality of Life Index: The Analysis of Four WHOQOL-100
Data Sets (Argentina, France, Hong Kong, United Kingdom)
Alain Leplege, Emmanuel Ecosse,
and WHOQOL Rasch Project Scientific Committee
Simultaneous
Measurement of Reading Growth, Gender, and Relative-Age Effects: Many-Faceted
Rasch Applied to CBM Reading Scores
Peter MacMillan
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Equating
and Item Banking with the Rasch Model
Edward W. Wolfe
Vol.
2, No. 1, Spring 2001
Historical
View of the Influences of Measurement and Reading Theories on the Assessment
of Reading
George Engelhard, Jr.
The Assessment
of Unidimensionality of Normal and Lognormal Data: A Look at Two Nonparametric
Procedures
Anne E. Seraphine, James J. Algina, and M. David
Miller
Rasch
Measurement
in the Assessment of Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adult
Patients
Luis Prieto, Montse Roset, and Xavier Badia
An
Investigation
of Gender Differences in the Components Influencing the Difficulty of Spatial
Ability Items
Gene A. Kramer and Richard M. Smith
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Partial
Credit Model and Pivot Anchoring
Rita K. Bode
Book Review-
Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of the Methodological Concept
by Joel Michell
Trevor Bond
Vol.
2, No. 2, Summer 2001
Using the
Rasch Measurement Model to Investigate the Construct of Motor Ability in
Young Children
Beth Hands and Dawne Larkin
The Alternate
Forms Reliability of the New Tasks Added to the Assessment of Motor and
Process Skills
Stephanie Ellison, Anne G. Fisher, and Lelie Duran
Cross-Cultural
validation of the Inventory of School Motivation (ISM): Motivation Orientations
of Navajo and Anglo Students
Dennis M. McInerney, Alexander Seeshing Yeung, and Valentina
McInerney
All Prompts
are Created Equal, But Some Prompts are More Equal than
Others
Mark D. Shermis, Jeffrey Lee Rasmussen, D. W. Rajecki,
and Jennifer Olson
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Objective Standard Setting
Gregory E. Stone
Vol.
2, No. 3, Fall 2001
Congruence
between
a Theoretical Continuum of Masculinity and the Rasch Model: Examining the
Conformity to
Masculine Norms Inventory
Larry H. Ludlow and James R. Mahalik
Detecting
Unexpected
Variables in the MMPI-2 Social Introversion Scale
Chih-Hung Chang and Benjamin D. Wright
A
Cross-cultural
Procedure to Assess Reliability and Measurement Invariance
Anil Mathur, Benny Barak, Yong Zhang, and Kuen S.
Lee
Detecting
Differential
Rater Functioning over Time (DRIFT) Using the Rasch Multi-faceted Rating Scale
Model
Edward W. Wolfe, Bradley C. Moulder, and Carol
Myford
Understanding
Rasch
Measurement: Evidence for the Reliability of Measures and the Validity of
Measure
Interpretations
Everett V. Smith, Jr.
Vol.
2, No. 4, Winter 2001
Toward
Establishing
a Unified Metric for Performance and Learning Goal
Orientations
Everett V. Smith, Jr. and Caroline Dupeyrat
Controlling for
Rater Effects when Comparing Survey Items with Incomplete Likert
Data
E. Matthew Schulz and Anji Sun
Polychotomous
Modeling
of Cognitive Errors in Computer Adaptive Testing
LihShing Wang and Chun-Shan Li
Comparing
Holistic
and Analytic Scoring for Performance Assessment with Many-facet Rasch
Measurement
Eunlim Chi
Understanding
Rasch
Measurement: The Rasch Model, Additive Conjoint Measurement, and New Models of
Probabilistic
Measurement Theory
George Karabatsos
Book Review -
The Mathematics of Measurement: A Critical History by J.
Roche
William P. Fisher, Jr.
Vol.
3, No. 1, Spring 2002
A Confirmatory
Study of Rasch-based
Optimal Categorization of a Rating Scale
Weimo Zhu
Dimensionality
and Construct
Validity of School Development Expectation Scale for Secondary
Students
Mo Ching Magdalena Mok and Marcellin Flynn
Item Grouping
Effects on Invariance
of Attitude Items
Catherine Frantom, Kathy E. Green, and Tony C.M.
Lam
Level of
Activity in Profound/Sever
Mental Retardation (LAPMER): A Rasch-derived Scale of Disability
Luigi Tesio, Maria Rosa Valsecchi, Marina Sala, Paolo
Guzzon,
and Mario Alberto Battaglia
Understanding
Rasch
Measurement: Optimizing Rating Scale Category
Effectiveness
John M. Linacre
Vol.
3, No. 2, Summer 2002
An Eigenvector
Method for
Estimating Item Parameters of the Dichotomous and Polychotomous
Rasch Models
Mary Garner and George Engelhard, Jr.
Two Strategies
for Fitting Real
Data to Rasch Polytomous Models
Antonio J. Rojas Tejada, Andres Gonzalez Gomez, Jose L.
Padilla
Garcia,
and Cristino Perez Melendez
A Comparison of
Three Developmental
Stage Scoring Systems
Theo Linda Dawson
Development of
a Functional
Movement Scale for Infants
Suzann K. Campbell, Benjamin D. Wright, and J. Michael
Linacre
Understanding
Rasch
Measurement: Detecting and Evaluating the Impact of Multidimensionality
using Item Fit Statistics and Principal Component Analysis of
Residuals
Everett V. Smith, Jr.
Vol.
3, No. 3, Fall 2002
Test Scores,
Measurement, and the
Use of Analysis of Variance: An Historical Overview
Joseph Romanoski and Graham Douglas
Using Rasch
Measurement to
Investigate the Cross-form Equivalence and Clinical Utility of Spanish and English
Versions of a Diabetes
Questionnaire: A Pilot Study
Ben Gerber, Everett V. Smith,Jr., Mariela Girotti, Lourdes
Pelaez,
Kimberly Lawless, Louanne Smolin, Irwin Brodsky, and Arnold
Eiser
Moving the Cut
Score on Rasch
Scored Tests
G. Edward Miller and S. Natasha Beretvas
Examining Item
Difficulty and
Response Time on Perceptual Ability Test Items
Chien-Lin Yang, Thomas R. O'Neill, and Gene A.
Kramer
When Raters
Disagree, Then What:
Examining a Third-rating Discrepancy Resolution Procedure and Its Utility for
Identifying Unusual Patterns
of Rating
Carol M. Myford and Edward V. Wolfe
Understanding
Rasch
Measurement: Understanding Resistance to the Data-model Relationship in Rasch's
Paradigm: A
Reflection for the Next Generation
David Andrich
Vol.
3, No. 4, Winter 2002
A Multi-factor
Rasch Scale for Artistic Judgment
Nikolaus Bezruczko
Establishing
Longitudinal Factorial Construct Validity of the Quality of School Life Scale for
Secondary Schools
Magdalena Mo Ching Mok and Marcellin Flynn
Rasch-transformed Raw Scores and Two-way ANOVA: A Simulation Analysis
Joseph Romanoski and Graham Douglas
Development of
Measurability and Importance Scales for the NATA Athletic Training Educational
Competencies
Edward W. Wolfe and Sally Nogle
Measuring
Leader Perceptions of School Readiness for Reform: Use of an Iterative Model
Combining Classical and Rasch Methods
Madhabi Chatterji
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Construction of Measures from Many-facet
Data
John M. Linacre
Book Review:
Applying the Rasch Model: Fundamental Measurement in the Human Sciences by Trevor G.
Bond and Christine M. Fox
Reviewed by Edward W. Wolfe
Vol.
4, No. 1, Spring 2003
The Effect of
Missing Data on Estimating a Respondent’s Location using Ratings Data
R.J. De Ayala
Rasch Simultaneous
Vertical Equating for Measuring Reading Growth
Lee Ong Kim
An Examination of
Exposure Control and Content Balancing Restrictions on Item Selection in CATs using the
Partial Credit Model
Laurie Laughlin Davis, Dena A. Pastor, Barbara G. Dodd, Claire
Chiang,
and Steven J. Fitzpatrick
Aerobic Exercise
Equipment Preferences among Older Adults: A Preliminary Investigation
Marilyn A. Looney and James H. Rimmer
Measurement
Precision of the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS): A Rasch Model Analysis
Elizabeth J. Betemps, Richard M. Smith, Dewleen G. Baker,
and Barbara A. Rounds-Kugler
A Comparative
Evaluation of Methods of Adjusting GPA for Differences in Grade Assignment Practices
Pui-Wa Lei, Dina Bassiri, and E. Matthew Schulz
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: An Introduction to Multidimensional Measurement
Derek C. Briggs and Mark Wilson
Vol.
4, No. 2, Summer 2003
Maximum Information
Approach to Scale Description for Affective Measures Based on the Rasch Model
Huynh Huynh and J. Patrick Meyer
Measuring Client Satisfaction
with Public Education I: Meeting Competing Demands in Establishing State-wide Benchmarks
John A. King and Trevor G. Bond
Developing an Initial
Physical Function Item Bank from Existing Sources
Rita K. Bode, David Cella, Jin-shei Lai, and Allen W. Heinemann
Breakthrough Measuring
Neighborhoods
Nikolaus Bezruczko
Rasch Fit Statistics
as a Test of the Invariance of Item Parameter Estimates
Richard M. Smith and Kyunghee K. Suh
Measuring Attitudes
and Behaviors to Studying and Learning for University Students: A Rasch Measurement Model Analysis
Russell Waugh
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Rasch Techniques for Detecting Bias in Performance Assessment:
An Example Comparing the Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers on a Test of Academic English
Catherine Elder, Tim McNamara, and Peter Congdon
Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 2003
Conditional Pairwise Estimation in the Rasch Model for Ordered Response Categories using Principal Components
David Andrich and Guanzhong Luo
Reliability and True-score Measures of Binary Items as a Function of Their Rasch Difficulty Parameter
Dimiter M. Dimitrov
Using Logistic Regression to Detect Item-level Non-response Bias in Surveys
Edward W. Wolfe
Rasch Measurement in the Assessment of Amytropic Lateral Sclerosis Patients
Josephine M. Norquist, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Crispin Jenkinson
Measuring Client Satisfaction with Public Education II: Comparing Schools with State Benchmarks
Trevor G. Bond and John A. King
The Recovery of the Density Scale using a Stochastic Quasi-Realization of Additive Conjoint Measurement
Timothy W. Pelton and C. Victor Bunderson
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Substantive Scale Construction
Mark H. Stone
Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 2003
Measurement: A Beginner’s Guide
Joel Michell
Rasch Modeling and the Measurement of Social Participation
Claire Dumont, Richard Bertrand, Patrick Fougeyrollas, and Marie Gervais
Measuring Client Satisfaction with Public Education III:
Trevor G. Bond and John A. King
Examining Reliability and Validity of Job Analysis Survey Data
Ning Wang
Measuring Coping at a University Using a Rasch Model
Russell F. Waugh
Towards a Hierarchical Goal Theory Model of School Motivation
Dennis M. McInerney, Herbert W. Marsh, and Alexander Seeshing Yeung
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Detecting and Measuring Rater Effects Using Many-facet Rasch Measurement: Part I
Carol M. Myford and Edward W. Wolfe
Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2004
Establishing Mathematical Laws of Geonomic Variation
Nathan J. Markward
Comparing Traditional and Rasch Analyses of the Missippippi PTSD Scale:
Revaling Limitations of Reverse Scored Items
Kendon J. Conrad, Benjamin D. Wright, Patrick McKnight, Miles McFall, Alan Fontana, and Robert Rosenheck
Evaluating Judge Performance in Sport
Marilyn A. Looney
The Effect of Sample Size for Estimating Rasch/IRT Parameters with Dichotomous Items
Mark Stone and Futoshi Yumoto
Equating Student Satisfaction Measures
Svetlana A. Beltyukova, Gregory E. Stone, and Christine M. Fox
Treating Test-item Nonresponse
Hamish Coats
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Rasch Model Estimation: Further Topics
John M. Linacre
Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 2004
The Impact
of Model Misfit on Partial Credit Model Parameter Estimates
Randall D. Penfield
Calibrating the Genome
Nathan J. Markward and William P. Fisher, Jr.
Comparisons of Mathematics Achievement
of Grade 8 Students in the United States and the Russian Federation
Saodat I. Bazarova and George Engelhard, Jr
A Rasch Analysis of Three of the
Wisconsin Scales of Psychosis Proneness: Measurement of Schizotypy
Roger E. Graves and Sara Weinstein
Evaluation of the 0.3 Logits
Screening Criterion in Common Item Equating
G. Edward Miller, Ourania Rotou, and Jon S. Twing
The Effect of Dropping
Low Ability Scores on Ability Estimates
Ryan P. Bowles
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Detecting and Measuring Rater Effects Using Many-facet Rasch Measurement: Part II
Carol M. Myford and Edward W. Wolfe
Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 2004
Equating Rehabilitation Outcome Scales:
Developing Common Metrics
Richard M. Smith and Patricia A. Taylor
Using Rasch Models to Reveal
Contours of Teachers’ Knowledge
Constantina Hadjidemetriou and Julian Williams
Validation of Scores from Self-Learning
Scales for Primary Students using True-Score and Rasch Measurement Methods
Magdalena Mo Ching Mok
Reporting the Incidence of School
Violence across Grade Levels in the U.S. Using the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Lei Yu
Pre-Equating: A Simulation Study
Based on a Large Scale Assessment Model
Husein M. Taherbhai and Michael Young
The Equivalance of Three Data
Collection Methods with Field Test Data: A FACETS Application
Mark Pomplun and Michael Custer
Understanding
Rasch Measurement: Rasch Measurement: Using Dichotomous Scoring
Randall E. Schumacker
Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 2004
Measuring Higher
Education Outcomes with a Multidimensional Rasch Model
Christine E. DeMars
Measurement in Clinical vs. Biological Medicine:
The Rasch Model as a Bridge on a Widening Gap
Luigi Tesio
Dimensionality and Construct Validity of an
Instrument Designed to Measure the Metacognitive Orientation of Science Classroom Learning Environments
Gregory P. Thomas
A New Class of Parametric IRT Models for
Dichotomous Item Scores
David J. Hessen
Comparing Factor Analysis and the Rasch
Model for Ordered Response Categories: An Investigation of the Scale of Gambling Choices
Andrew Kyngdon
Assessing the Assumptions of Symmetric
Proximity Measures in the Context of Multidimensional Scaling
Ken Kelley
Understanding Rasch Measurement:
Detecting Item Bias with the Rasch Model
Richard M. Smith
Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2005
Rasch Analysis of Inattentive, Hyperactive,
and Impulse Behavior in Young Children and the Link with Academic Achievement
Christine Merrell and Peter Tymms
Measuring Statistical Literacy
Rosemary Callingham and Jane Watson
Expected Linking Error Resulting from Item
Parameter Drift among Common Items on Rasch Calibrated Tests
G. Edward Miller, Paul Randall Gesn, and Ourania Rotou
Measuring College Sailing Teams Ability:
An Application of the Many-Facet Rasch Model to Ordinal Data
William Steve Lang and Judy R. Wilkerson
On the Lack of Comomotonicity between
Likert Scores and Rasch-Based Measures
Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti
An Analysis of Dimensionality using
Factor Analysis(True-Score Theory) and Rasch Measurement: What is the Difference? Which Method is Better?
Russell F. Waugh and Elaine Chapman
Does Data Rounding-Off Influence
Reproducibility Index Estimates?
Bruno Giraudeau, Philippe Ravaud, and Jean-Yves Mary
Understanding Rasch Measurement:
Computer Adaptive Testing
Richard C. Gershon
Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2005
Estimating Item Parameters in the Rasch Model
in the Presence of Null Categories
Guanzhong Luo and David Andrich
Effects of Item Redundancy on Rasch Item and
Person Estimates
Everett V, Smith, Jr.
Measuring Progress Towards Smoking Cessation
Melinda F. Davis, Lee B. Sechrest, and Dan Shapiro
Daredevil Barnstorming to the Tipping Point:
New Aspirations for the Human Sciences
William P. Fisher, Jr.
Comparing Rasch Analyses Probability Estimates
to Sensitivity, Specificity and Likelihood Ratios when Examining the Utility of Medical Diagnostic Tests
Daniel Cipriani, Christine Fox, Sadik Khuder, and Nancy Boudreau
A Rank-Ordering Method for Equating Tests by Expert
Judgment
Tom Bramley
Using the Rasch Model to Validate Stages of
Understanding the Energy Concept
Xiufeng Liu and Sarah Conrad
Book Review – Designing and Using Tools for
Educational Assessment, Madhabi Chatterji
Jonna M. Kulikiwich
Book Review – Making Measures,
Denjamin D. Wright and Mark H. Stone
Edward V. Wolfe
Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 2005
The Multilevel Measurement Model:
Introduction to the Special Issue
S. Natasha Beretvas and Akihito Kamata
Demonstration of Software Programs
for Estimating Multilevel Measurement Model Parameters
J. Kyle Roberts and Rich Herrington
Mixed Model Estimation Methods
for the Rasch Model
Frank Rijmen, Francis Tuerlinckx, Michael Meulders, Dirk J. M. Smits, and Katalin Balazs
Some Links between Classical
and Modern Test Theory via the Two-Level Hierarchical General Linear Model
Yasuo Miyazaki
Modeling Local Item
Dependence with the Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model
Hong Jaio, Shudong Wang, and Akihito Kamata
The Cross-Classified
Multilevel Measurement Model: An Explanation and Demonstration
S. Natasha Beretvas, Jason L. Meyers, and Rolando A. Rodriguez
Test Equating in the
Presence of DIF Items
Kwang-lee Chu and Akihito Kamata
Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 2005
Unique Properties of Rasch Model Item
Information Functions
Randall Penfield
Evaluation of the Diabetes Self-Care
Scale
Nantawadee P. Lee and William P. Fisher, Jr.
Rasch Analysis Examining Processing
Mechanisms of the Object Location Memory Test
Tracy L. Kline and Karen M. Schmidt
Using the Rasch Model to Develop a
Measure of Second Language Learners’ Willingness to Communicate within a Language Classroom
Christopher Weaver
Knowledge and Understanding Asia:
Using a Common Item Pool to Obtain National Estimates
Patrick Griffin and Kerry Woods
Measuring and Comparing Higher
Education Quality between Countries Worldwide
Anatoli A. Maslak, George Karabatsos, Tatijana S. Anisimova, and Sergi A. Osipov
Understanding Rasch Measurement:
The Relationship between the Rating Scale and Partial Credit Models and the Implication of Disordered
Thresholds of the Rasch Models for Polychotomous Responses
Guanzhong Luo
Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2006
Expansion of a Physical Function
Item Bank and Development of an Abbreviated Form for Clinical Research
Rita K. Bode, Jin-shei Lai, Kelly Dineen, Allen W. Heinemann, Danial Shevrin,
Jamie Von Roenn, and David Cella
Using Rasch Analysis to
Test the Cross-Cultural Item Equivalence of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Hopkins
Symptom Checklist Across Vietnamese and Cambodian Immigrant Mothers
Yoonsun Choi, Amy Mericle, and Tracy W. Harachi
Using Rasch Measurement to
Investigate Volleyball Skills and Inform Coaching
Ryan P. Bowles and Nilam Ram
The Assessment of Diabetes
Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in a Diverse Population using Rasch Measurement
Ben S. Gerber, Maria Pagcatipunan, Everett V. Smith, Jr., Semonti S. Basu,
Kimberly A Lawless, Louanne I. Smolin, Michael L. Berbaum, Irwin G. Brodsky, and Arnold R. Eiser
Using LinLog and FACETS to
Model Item Components in the LLTM
Tracy L. Kline, Karen M. Schmidt, and Ryan Bowles
Development of a Comprehensiveness
of Rasch Measurement Application Scale
Iasonas Lamprianou
Issues in Multi-Item Scale
Testing and Development using Structural Equation Models
Shaun McQuitty and James W. Bishop
Understanding Rasch
Measurement: Rasch Analysis of Rank-Ordered Data
John M. Linacre
Memorial – The Measure of a Man: Nam Raju
Rita K. Bode
Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2006
Rasch Analysis of a New Construct: Functional Caregiving for Adult Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Shu-Pi C. Chen, Nikolaus Bezruczko, and Sheila Ryan-Henery
Whose Criterion Standard Is It Anyway?
Gregory E. Stone
Adjusted Rasch Person Fit Statistics
Dimiter M. Dimitrov and Richard M. Smith
From Rasch Scores to Regression
Karl Bang Christensen
The Stability of Marker Characteristics
Across Tests of the Same Subject and Across Students
Iasonas Lamprianou
Development of a Money Mismanagement
Measure and Cross-Validation Due to Suspected Range Restriction
Kendon J. Conrad, Michael D. Matters, Daniel J. Luchins, Patricia Hanrahan,
Danielle L. Quasius, and George Lutz
Understanding Rasch
Measurement: The Mixed Rasch Model: An Example for Analyzing the meaning of Response Latencies in
a Personality Questionnaire
Michaela M. Wagner-Menghin
Vol. 7, No. 3 Fall 2006
Measuring Teacher Ability with the
Rasch Model by Scaling a Series of Product and Performance Tasks
Judy R. Wilkerson and William Steve Lang
An Introduction to the Theory of
Unidimensional Unfolding
Andrew Kyngdon
Estimating Person Locations from Partial
Credit Data Containing Missing Responsess
R. J. De Ayala
Validation of a Questionnaire Used to
Assess Safety and Professionalism among Arborists
Steven G. Viger, Edward W. Wolfe, Hallie Dozier, and Krisanna Machtmes
How Accurate Are Lexile Text Measures?
A. Jackson Stenner, Hall Burdick, Eleanor E. Sanford, and Donald S. Burdick
Rasch Analysis of the Structure of
Health Risk Behavior in South African Adolescents
Elias Mpofu, Linda Caldwell, Edward Smith, Alan J. Fisher, Christine Mathews,
Lisa Wagner, and Tania Vergnani
Understanding Rasch
Measurement: Multicomponent Latent Trait Models for Complex Tasks
Susan E. Embretson and Xiangdong Ya
Vol. 7, No. 4 Winter 2006
Standard Systems: The Foundational Element
of Measurement Theory
Marion S. Aftanas
An Empirical Study into the Theory of
Unidimensional Unfolding
Andrew Kyngdon
Expanding an Existing Multiple Choice
Test with a Mixed Format Test: Simulation Studies on Sample Size and Item Recovery in Concurrent Calibration
Insu Paek and Michael J. Young
Fitting Polychotomous Rasch Models in SAS
Karl Bang Christensen
The Development and Validation of the
Self-Directed Learning Scales (SLS)
Magdalena Mo Ching Mok, Cheng Yin Cheong, Phillip John Moore, and Kerry John Kennedy
Understanding Rasch
Measurement: Using Paired Comparisons to Create the Semantic Construct of Frequency
Thomas R. O’Neill
Vol. 8, No. 1 Spring 2007
Attitudes, Order and Quantity: Deterministic
and Direct Probabilistic Tests of Unidimensional Unfolding
Andrew Kyngdon and Ben Richards
Conception and Construction of a Rasch-Scaled
Measure for Self-Confidence in One’s Vocabulary Ability
Michaela M. Wagner-Menghin
Relative Precision, Efficiency and Construct
Validity of Different Starting and Stopping Rules for a Computerized Adaptive Test: The GAIN Substance Problem
Scale
Barth B. Riley, Kendon J. Conrad, Nikolaus Bezruczko, and Michael L. Dennis
Bookmark Locations and Item Response Model
Selection in the Presence of Local Item Dependence
Garry Skaggs
Comparing Concurrent versus Fixed Parameter
equating with Common Items: Using the Rasch Dichotomous and Partial Credit Models in a Mixed Item-Format Test
Husein M. Taherbhai and Daer Yong Seo
Understanding Rasch
Measurement: Instrument Development Tools and Activities for Measure Validation using Rasch Models:
Part I – Instrument Development Tools
Edward W. Wolfe and Everett V. Smith, Jr.
Vol. 8, No. 2 Summer 2007
Mental Self Government: Development
of the Additional Democratic Learning Style using Rasch Measurement Models
Tine Nielsen, Svend Kreiner, and Irene Styles
Measuring Math Anxiety (in Spanish)
with the Rasch Rating Scale Model
Derardo Prieto and Ana R. Delgado
Using Rasch Analysis to Construct
a Clinical Problem-Solving Inventory in the Dental Clinic: A Case Study
Chien-Lin Yang and Gene A. Kramer
Evidence-Based Practice for Equating
Health Status Items: Sample Size and IRT Model
Karon F. Cook, Patrick W. Taylor, Barbara G. Dodd, Cayla R. Teal, and Colleen McHorney
Computing Confidence Intervals of
Item Fit Statistics in the Family of Rasch Models using the Bootstrap Method
Ya-Hui Su, Ching-Fan Sheu, and Wen-Chung Wang
Understanding Rasch
Measurement: Instrument Development Tools and Activities for Measure Validation using Rasch Models:
Part II – Validation Activities
Edward W. Wolfe and Everett V. Smith, Jr.
Vol. 8, No. 3 Fall 2007
The Programme for International Assessment: An Overview
Ross Turner and Raymond J. Adams
Translation Equivalence across PISA Countries
Aleetta Grisay, John H. A. L. de Jong, Eveline Gebhardt, Alla Berezner, and Beatrice Halleux-Monseur
Ameliorating Culturally Based Extreme Item Tendencies to Attitude Items
Maurice Walker
The Impact of Differential Investment of Student Effort on the Outcomes of International Studies
Jayne Butler and Raymond J. Adams
The Influence of Equating Methodology on Reported Trends in PISA
Eveline Gebhardt and Raymond J. Adams
The Computation of Equating Errors in International Surveys in Education
Christian Monseur and Alla Berezner
Vol. 8, No. 4 Winter 2007
Nonequivalent Survey Consolidation:
An Example From Functional Caregiving
Nikolaus Bezruczko and Shu-Pi C. Chen
Mindfulness Practice: A Rasch Variable Construct
Innovation
Sharon G. Solloway and William P. Fisher, Jr.
Substance Use Disorder Symptoms: Evidence of
Differential Item Functioning by Age
Kendon J. Conrad, Michael L. Dennis, Nikolaus Bezruczko, Rodney R. Funk, and Barth B. Riley
A Monte Carlo Study of the Impact of Missing
Data and Differential Item Functioning on Theta Estimates from Two Polytomous Rasch Family Models
Carolyn F. Furlow, Rachel T. Fouladi, Phill Gagné, and Tiffany A. Whittaker
Investigation of 360-Degree Instrumentation
Effects: Application of the RASCH Rating Scale Model
John T. Kulas and Kelly M. Hannum