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Review of Principles of Test Analysis Using Rasch Measurement Theory

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A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory

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Revision of the principles of Rasch measurement theory—invariance of comparisons, item and threshold locations, tests of statistical fit between responses and the Rasch model.

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  1. Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

    David Andrich & Ida Marais

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Exercise 8: Writing up a Rasch model analysis in Appendix C.

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Andrich, D., Marais, I. (2019). Review of Principles of Test Analysis Using Rasch Measurement Theory. In: A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7496-8_29

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