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Ordinal Item Response Theory
Mokken Scale Analysis
- Wijbrandt H. van Schuur - University of Groningen, Netherlands
Volume:
169
May 2011 | 128 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Measurement in the social sciences often refers to standardized answers to close-ended questions, in which answers are analyzed as if they were measurements on an interval scale. This volume presents a measurement model that maintains the ordinal aspects of the data in order to establish how well the model fits and how it measures subjects and items. It relaxes the most stringent assumptions from parametric item response theory, while maintaining its advantages over classical measurement methods, such as reliability and factor analysis. This volume is less technical than other books on the topic and is ideal for introductory courses in social science measurement.
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About the Author
Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Guttman Scale
Chapter 3. The Imperfect Cumulative Scale
Chapter 4. Confirmation or Exploration
Chapter 5. An Example of a Cumulative Scale: American Religious Beliefs
Chapter 6. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Monotone Homogeneity
Chapter 7. The Probabilistic Dominance Model: Double Monotonicity
Chapter 8. Cumulative Scaling with Polytomous Items
Chapter 9. Remaining Issues
References
Selected Bibliography
Appendices
Author Index
Subject Index
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