An Empirical Bayes Approach to Item Banking. Project Psychometric Aspects of Item Banking No. 6. Research Report 86-6 [electronic resource] / Wim J. van der Linden and Theo J. H. M. Eggen.

A procedure for the sequential optimization of the calibration of an item bank is given. The procedure is based on an empirical Bayes approach to a reformulation of the Rasch model as a model for paired comparisons between the difficulties of test items in which ties are allowed to occur. First, it...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Linden, Wim J. van der
Corporate Author:	Technische Hogeschool Twente. Department of Education
Other Authors:	Eggen, Theo J. H. M.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986.
Subjects:	Bayesian Statistics. Foreign Countries. Item Banks. Latent Trait Theory. Mathematical Models. Statistical Analysis. Test Construction.