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ArticlePsychometrika2023

Rejoinder to Commentaries on Lyu, Bolt and Westby's "Exploring the Effects of Item Specific Factors in Sequential and IRTree Models".

Weicong Lyu, Daniel M Bolt

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Article in Psychometrika, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Weicong LyuUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, 880 Educational Sciences, 1025 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI,  53706, USA. wlyu4@wisc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8159-2161
Daniel M BoltUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, 880 Educational Sciences, 1025 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI,  53706, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We respond to the commentaries on Lyu, Bolt and Westby's "Exploring the effects of item specific factors in sequential and IRTree models." The commentaries raise important points that allow us to clarify our theoretical expectation for item specific factors in many educational and psychological test items. At the same time, we agree with the commentaries in acknowledging challenges associated with providing empirical evidence for their presence and reflect on strategies that might support their estimation. We maintain that the principal concern is the ambiguity item specific factors create in attempting to interpret or use the parameters beyond the first node.

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PsychometricsTimeIRTree modelssequential IRT modelsspecific factors

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