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IRT Item Parameter Recovery With Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation Using Loglinear Smoothing Models

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  • Jodi M. Casabianca

    (The University of Texas at Austin)

  • Charles Lewis

    (Fordham University)

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Loglinear smoothing (LLS) estimates the latent trait distribution while making fewer assumptions about its form and maintaining parsimony, thus leading to more precise item response theory (IRT) item parameter estimates than standard marginal maximum likelihood (MML). This article provides the expectation-maximization algorithm for MML estimation with LLS embedded and compares LLS to other latent trait distribution specifications, a fixed normal distribution, and the empirical histogram solution, in terms of IRT item parameter recovery. Simulation study results using a 3-parameter logistic model reveal that LLS models matching four or five moments are optimal in most cases. Examples with empirical data compare LLS to these approaches as well as Ramsay-curve IRT.

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  • Jodi M. Casabianca & Charles Lewis, 2015. "IRT Item Parameter Recovery With Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation Using Loglinear Smoothing Models," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, , vol. 40(6), pages 547-578, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jedbes:v:40:y:2015:i:6:p:547-578
    DOI: 10.3102/1076998615606112
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