Journal of Applied Measurement
P.O. Box 1283
Maple Grove, MN 55311
Table of Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2000
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder:
Scaling and Standard Setting using Rasch
Measurement
Everett V. Smith, Jr. and Brian D.
Johnson
An Investigation of Factors Affecting Test Equating in
Latent Trait Theory
Surintorn Suanthong,Randall E. Schumacker, and Michael
M. Beyerlein
An Approach to Studying Scale for Students in Higher
Education:
A
Rasch Measurement Model Analysis
Russell F. Waugh, Teck Kiong Hii, and Atique
Islam
Modeling Effects of Differential Item Functioning in
Polytomous Items
Wen-Chung Wang
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Rasch Models
Overview
Benjamin D. Wright and Magdalena Mok
Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 2000
Development of a Nutritional Self-Efficacy Scale for
Prospective Physicians
Jessica A. Schulman and Edward W. Wolfe
The Impact of Receiving the Same Items on Consecutive
Computer Adaptive Test Administrations
Thomas O’Neill, Mary E. Lunz, and Keith
Thiede
A
Critique of Rasch Residual Fit Statistics
George Karabatsos
Construct Validity of Scores/Measures from a
Developmental Assessment of Mathematics using Classical and Many-Facet Rasch
Measurement
Madhabi Banerji
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Fit Analysis in Latent Trait Measurement
Models
Richard M. Smith
Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 2000
Development of a Scale for Measuring Invasive Plant
Environmentalism
Edward W. Wolfe and Hallie Dozier
Factorial Modeling of Differential Distractor
Functioning in Multiple-Choice Items
Wen-Chung Wang
Measurement of Cognitive Performance in Computer
Programming Concept Acquisition: Interactive Effects of Visual Metaphors and the
Cognitive Style Construct
Elspeth McKay
CAT Administration of Language Placement
Examinations
John Stahl, Betty Bergstrom, and Richard
Gershon
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Metric Development and
Score Reporting in Rasch Measurement
Everett V. Smith, Jr.
The Social Physique Anaxiety Scale: An Example of the Potential Consequences
of Negatively Worded Items in Factorial Validity Studies
Robert W. Motl, David E. Conroy, and Patrick M.
Horan
Moral and Evaluative Reasoning Across the
Life-span
Theo Linda Dawson
Methodological Issues in Using the Rasch Model to Select
Cross Culturally Equivalent Items in Order to Develop a Quality of Life Index:
The Analysis of Four WHOQOL-100 Data Sets (Argentina, France, Hong Kong, United
Kingdom)
Alain Leplege, Emmanuel Ecosse,
and WHOQOL Rasch Project Scientific
Committee
Simultaneous Measurement of Reading Growth, Gender, and
Relative-Age Effects: Many-Faceted Rasch Applied to CBM Reading
Scores
Peter MacMillan
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Equating and Item Banking with the Rasch
Model
Edward W. Wolfe
Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2001
Historical View of the Influences of Measurement and
Reading Theories on the Assessment of Reading
George Engelhard, Jr.
The Assessment of Unidimensionality of Normal and
Lognormal Data: A Look at Two Nonparametric Procedures
Anne E. Seraphine, James J. Algina, and M. David
Miller
Rasch Measurement in the Assessment of Growth Hormone
Deficiency in Adult Patients
Luis Prieto, Montse Roset, and Xavier
Badia
An Investigation of Gender Differences in the Components
Influencing the Difficulty of Spatial Ability Items
Gene A. Kramer and Richard M. Smith
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Partial Credit Model and Pivot
Anchoring
Rita K. Bode
Book Review- Measurement in Psychology: A Critical
History of the Methodological Concept by Joel Michell
Trevor Bond
Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 2001
Using the Rasch Measurement Model to Investigate the
Construct of Motor Ability in Young Children
Beth Hands and Dawne Larkin
The Alternate Forms Reliability of the New Tasks Added
to the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills
Stephanie Ellison, Anne G. Fisher, and Lelie Duran
Cross-Cultural validation of the Inventory of School
Motivation (ISM): Motivation Orientations of Navajo and Anglo
Students
Dennis M. McInerney, Alexander Seeshing Yeung, and
Valentina McInerney
All Prompts are Created Equal, But Some Prompts are More
Equal than Others
Mark D. Shermis, Jeffrey Lee Rasmussen, D. W. Rajecki,
and Jennifer Olson
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Objective Standard
Setting
Gregory E. Stone
Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 2001
Congruence between a Theoretical Continuum of
Masculinity and the Rasch Model: Examining the Conformity to Masculine Norms
Inventory
Larry H. Ludlow and James R. Mahalik
Detecting Unexpected Variables in the MMPI-2 Social
Introversion Scale
Chih-Hung Chang and Benjamin D. Wright
A
Cross-cultural Procedure to Assess Reliability and Measurement
Invariance
Anil Mathur, Benny Barak, Yong Zhang, and Kuen S.
Lee
Detecting Differential Rater Functioning over Time
(DRIFT) Using the Rasch Multi-faceted Rating Scale Model
Edward W. Wolfe, Bradley C. Moulder, and Carol
Myford
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Evidence for the
Reliability of Measures and the Validity of Measure
Interpretations
Everett V. Smith, Jr.
Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 2001
Toward Establishing a Unified Metric for Performance and
Learning Goal Orientations
Everett V. Smith, Jr. and Caroline
Dupeyrat
Controlling for Rater Effects when Comparing Survey
Items with Incomplete Likert Data
E. Matthew Schulz and Anji Sun
Polychotomous Modeling of Cognitive Errors in Computer
Adaptive Testing
LihShing Wang and Chun-Shan Li
Comparing Holistic and Analytic Scoring for Performance
Assessment with Many-facet Rasch Measurement
Eunlim Chi
Understanding Rasch Measurement: The Rasch Model,
Additive Conjoint Measurement, and New Models of Probabilistic Measurement
Theory
George Karabatsos
Book Review - The Mathematics of Measurement: A Critical
History by J. Roche
William P. Fisher, Jr.
Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2002
A
Confirmatory Study of Rasch-based Optimal Categorization of a Rating Scale
Weimo Zhu
Dimensionality and Construct Validity of School
Development Expectation Scale for Secondary Students
Mo Ching Magdalena Mok and Marcellin
Flynn
Item Grouping Effects on Invariance of Attitude
Items
Catherine Frantom, Kathy E. Green, and Tony C.M.
Lam
Level of Activity in Profound/Sever Mental Retardation
(LAPMER): A Rasch-derived Scale of Disability
Luigi Tesio, Maria Rosa Valsecchi, Marina Sala, Paolo
Guzzon,
and Mario Alberto Battaglia
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Optimizing Rating Scale
Category Effectiveness
John M. Linacre
Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2002
An Eigenvector Method for Estimating Item Parameters of
the Dichotomous and Polychotomous Rasch Models
Mary Garner and George Engelhard, Jr.
Two Strategies for Fitting Real Data to Rasch Polytomous
Models
Antonio J. Rojas Tejada, Andres Gonzalez Gomez, Jose L.
Padilla Garcia,
and Cristino Perez Melendez
A
Comparison of Three Developmental Stage Scoring Systems
Theo Linda Dawson
Development of a Functional Movement Scale for
Infants
Suzann K. Campbell, Benjamin D. Wright, and J. Michael
Linacre
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Detecting and
Evaluating the Impact of Multidimensionality using Item Fit Statistics and
Principal Component Analysis of Residuals
Everett V. Smith, Jr.
Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 2002
Test Scores, Measurement, and the Use of Analysis of
Variance: An Historical Overview
Joseph Romanoski and Graham Douglas
Using Rasch Measurement to Investigate the Cross-form
Equivalence and Clinical Utility of Spanish and English Versions of a Diabetes
Questionnaire: A Pilot Study
Ben Gerber, Everett V. Smith,Jr., Mariela Girotti,
Lourdes Pelaez,
Kimberly Lawless, Louanne Smolin, Irwin Brodsky, and
Arnold Eiser
Moving the Cut Score on Rasch Scored
Tests
G. Edward Miller and S. Natasha Beretvas
Examining Item Difficulty and Response Time on
Perceptual Ability Test Items
Chien-Lin Yang, Thomas R. O'Neill, and Gene A.
Kramer
When Raters Disagree, Then What: Examining a
Third-rating Discrepancy Resolution Procedure and Its Utility for Identifying
Unusual Patterns of Rating
Carol M. Myford and Edward V. Wolfe
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Understanding
Resistance to the Data-model Relationship in Rasch's Paradigm: A Reflection for
the Next Generation
David Andrich
Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 2002
A
Multi-factor Rasch Scale for Artistic Judgment
Nikolaus Bezruczko
Establishing Longitudinal Factorial Construct Validity
of the Quality of School Life Scale for Secondary Schools
Magdalena Mo Ching Mok and Marcellin
Flynn
Rasch-transformed Raw Scores and Two-way ANOVA: A
Simulation Analysis
Joseph Romanoski and Graham Douglas
Development of Measurability and Importance Scales for
the NATA Athletic Training Educational Competencies
Edward W. Wolfe and Sally Nogle
Measuring Leader Perceptions of School Readiness for
Reform: Use of an Iterative Model Combining Classical and Rasch
Methods
Madhabi Chatterji
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Construction of
Measures from Many-facet Data
John M. Linacre
Book Review: Applying the Rasch Model: Fundamental
Measurement in the Human Sciences by Trevor G. Bond and Christine M.
Fox
Reviewed by Edward W. Wolfe
Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2003
The Effect of Missing Data on Estimating a Respondent’s
Location using Ratings Data
R.J. De Ayala
Rasch Simultaneous Vertical Equating for Measuring
Reading Growth
Lee Ong Kim
An Examination of Exposure Control and Content Balancing
Restrictions on Item Selection in CATs using the Partial Credit
Model
Laurie Laughlin Davis, Dena A. Pastor, Barbara G. Dodd,
Claire Chiang,
and Steven J. Fitzpatrick
Aerobic Exercise Equipment Preferences among Older
Adults: A Preliminary Investigation
Marilyn A. Looney and James H. Rimmer
Measurement Precision of the Clinician Administered PTSD
Scale (CAPS): A Rasch Model Analysis
Elizabeth J. Betemps, Richard M. Smith, Dewleen G.
Baker,
and Barbara A. Rounds-Kugler
A
Comparative Evaluation of Methods of Adjusting GPA for Differences in Grade
Assignment Practices
Pui-Wa Lei, Dina Bassiri, and E. Matthew
Schulz
Understanding Rasch Measurement: An Introduction to
Multidimensional Measurement
Derek C. Briggs and Mark Wilson
Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 2003
Maximum Information Approach to Scale Description for
Affective Measures Based on the Rasch Model
Huynh Huynh and J. Patrick Meyer
Measuring Client Satisfaction with Public Education I:
Meeting Competing Demands in Establishing State-wide
Benchmarks
John A. King and Trevor G. Bond
Developing an Initial Physical Function Item Bank from
Existing Sources
Rita K. Bode, David Cella, Jin-shei Lai, and Allen W.
Heinemann
Breakthrough Measuring
Neighborhoods
Nikolaus Bezruczko
Rasch Fit Statistics as a Test of the Invariance of Item
Parameter Estimates
Richard M. Smith and Kyunghee K. Suh
Measuring Attitudes and Behaviors to Studying and
Learning for University Students: A Rasch Measurement Model
Analysis
Russell Waugh
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Rasch Techniques for
Detecting Bias in Performance Assessment: An Example Comparing the Performance
of Native and Non-Native Speakers on a Test of Academic
English
Catherine Elder, Tim McNamara, and Peter
Congdon
Vol. 4, No. 3, Fall 2003
Conditional Pairwise Estimation in the Rasch Model for
Ordered Response Categories using Principal Components
David Andrich and Guanzhong Luo
Reliability and True-score Measures of Binary Items as a
Function of Their Rasch Difficulty Parameter
Dimiter M. Dimitrov
Using Logistic Regression to Detect Item-level
Non-response Bias in Surveys
Edward W. Wolfe
Rasch Measurement in the Assessment of Amytropic Lateral
Sclerosis Patients
Josephine M. Norquist, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Crispin
Jenkinson
Measuring Client Satisfaction with Public Education II:
Comparing Schools with State Benchmarks
Trevor G. Bond and John A. King
The Recovery of the Density Scale using a Stochastic
Quasi-Realization of Additive Conjoint Measurement
Timothy W. Pelton and C. Victor
Bunderson
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Substantive Scale
Construction
Mark H. Stone
Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 2003
Measurement: A Beginner’s Guide
Joel Michell
Rasch Modeling and the Measurement of Social
Participation
Claire Dumont, Richard Bertrand, Patrick Fougeyrollas,
and Marie Gervais
Measuring Client Satisfaction with Public Education III:
Trevor G. Bond and John A. King
Examining Reliability and Validity of Job Analysis
Survey Data
Ning Wang
Measuring Coping at a University Using a Rasch
Model
Russell F. Waugh
Towards a Hierarchical Goal Theory Model of School
Motivation
Dennis M. McInerney, Herbert W. Marsh, and Alexander
Seeshing Yeung
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Detecting and Measuring
Rater Effects Using Many-facet Rasch Measurement: Part I
Carol M. Myford and Edward W. Wolfe
Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2004
Establishing Mathematical Laws of Geonomic
Variation
Nathan J. Markward
Comparing Traditional and Rasch Analyses of the
Missippippi PTSD Scale: Revaling Limitations of Reverse Scored
Items
Kendon J. Conrad, Benjamin D. Wright, Patrick McKnight,
Miles McFall, Alan Fontana, and Robert Rosenheck
Evaluating Judge Performance in
Sport
Marilyn A. Looney
The Effect of Sample Size for Estimating Rasch/IRT
Parameters with Dichotomous Items
Mark Stone and Futoshi Yumoto
Equating Student Satisfaction
Measures
Svetlana A. Beltyukova, Gregory E. Stone, and Christine
M. Fox
Treating Test-item Nonresponse
Hamish Coats
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Rasch Model Estimation:
Further Topics
John M. Linacre
Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 2004
The Impact of Model Misfit on Partial Credit Model
Parameter Estimates
Randall D. Penfield
Calibrating the Genome
Nathan J. Markward and William P. Fisher,
Jr.
Comparisons of Mathematics Achievement of Grade 8
Students in the United States and the Russian Federation
Saodat I. Bazarova and George Engelhard,
Jr
A
Rasch Analysis of Three of the Wisconsin Scales of Psychosis Proneness:
Measurement of Schizotypy
Roger E. Graves and Sara Weinstein
Evaluation of the 0.3 Logits Screening Criterion in
Common Item Equating
G. Edward Miller, Ourania Rotou, and Jon S.
Twing
The Effect of Dropping Low Ability Scores on Ability
Estimates
Ryan P. Bowles
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Detecting and Measuring
Rater Effects Using Many-facet Rasch Measurement: Part II
Carol M. Myford and Edward W. Wolfe
Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 2004
Equating Rehabilitation Outcome Scales: Developing
Common Metrics
Richard M. Smith and Patricia A. Taylor
Using Rasch Models to Reveal Contours of Teachers’
Knowledge
Constantina Hadjidemetriou and Julian
Williams
Validation of Scores from Self-Learning Scales for
Primary Students using True-Score and Rasch Measurement
Methods
Magdalena Mo Ching Mok
Reporting the Incidence of School Violence across Grade
Levels in the U.S. Using the Third International Mathematics and Science Study
(TIMSS)
Lei Yu
Pre-Equating: A Simulation Study Based on a Large Scale
Assessment Model
Husein M. Taherbhai and Michael Young
The Equivalance of Three Data Collection Methods with
Field Test Data: A FACETS Application
Mark Pomplun and Michael Custer
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Rasch Measurement:
Using Dichotomous Scoring
Randall E. Schumacker
Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 2004
Measuring Higher Education Outcomes with a
Multidimensional Rasch Model
Christine E. DeMars
Measurement in Clinical vs. Biological Medicine: The
Rasch Model as a Bridge on a Widening Gap
Luigi Tesio
Dimensionality and Construct Validity of an Instrument
Designed to Measure the Metacognitive Orientation of Science Classroom Learning
Environments
Gregory P. Thomas
A
New Class of Parametric IRT Models for Dichotomous Item
Scores
David J. Hessen
Comparing Factor Analysis and the Rasch Model for
Ordered Response Categories: An Investigation of the Scale of Gambling
Choices
Andrew Kyngdon
Assessing the Assumptions of Symmetric Proximity
Measures in the Context of Multidimensional Scaling
Ken Kelley
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Detecting Item Bias
with the Rasch Model
Richard M. Smith
Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2005
Rasch Analysis of Inattentive, Hyperactive, and Impulse
Behavior in Young Children and the Link with Academic
Achievement
Christine Merrell and Peter Tymms
Measuring Statistical Literacy
Rosemary Callingham and Jane Watson
Expected Linking Error Resulting from Item Parameter
Drift among Common Items on Rasch Calibrated Tests
G. Edward Miller, Paul Randall Gesn, and Ourania
Rotou
Measuring College Sailing Teams Ability: An Application
of the Many-Facet Rasch Model to Ordinal Data
William Steve Lang and Judy R. Wilkerson
On the Lack of Comomotonicity between Likert Scores and
Rasch-Based Measures
Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti
An Analysis of Dimensionality using Factor
Analysis(True-Score Theory) and Rasch Measurement: What is the Difference? Which
Method is Better?
Russell F. Waugh and Elaine Chapman
Does Data Rounding-Off Influence Reproducibility Index
Estimates?
Bruno Giraudeau, Philippe Ravaud, and Jean-Yves
Mary
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Computer Adaptive
Testing
Richard C. Gershon
Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2005
Estimating Item Parameters in the Rasch Model in the
Presence of Null Categories
Guanzhong Luo and David Andrich
Effects of Item Redundancy on Rasch Item and Person
Estimates
Everett V, Smith, Jr.
Measuring Progress Towards Smoking
Cessation
Melinda F. Davis, Lee B. Sechrest, and Dan
Shapiro
Daredevil Barnstorming to the Tipping Point: New
Aspirations for the Human Sciences
William P. Fisher, Jr.
Comparing Rasch Analyses Probability Estimates to
Sensitivity, Specificity and Likelihood Ratios when Examining the Utility of
Medical Diagnostic Tests
Daniel Cipriani, Christine Fox, Sadik Khuder, and Nancy
Boudreau
A
Rank-Ordering Method for Equating Tests by Expert Judgment
Tom Bramley
Using the Rasch Model to Validate Stages of
Understanding the Energy Concept
Xiufeng Liu and Sarah Conrad
Book Review – Designing and Using Tools for Educational
Assessment, Madhabi Chatterji
Jonna M. Kulikiwich
Book Review – Making Measures, Denjamin D. Wright and
Mark H. Stone
Edward V. Wolfe
Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 2005
The Multilevel Measurement Model: Introduction to the
Special Issue
S. Natasha Beretvas and Akihito Kamata
Demonstration of Software Programs for Estimating
Multilevel Measurement Model Parameters
J. Kyle Roberts and Rich Herrington
Mixed Model Estimation Methods for the Rasch
Model
Frank Rijmen, Francis Tuerlinckx, Michael Meulders, Dirk
J. M. Smits, and Katalin Balazs
Some Links between Classical and Modern Test Theory via
the Two-Level Hierarchical General Linear Model
Yasuo Miyazaki
Modeling Local Item Dependence with the Hierarchical
Generalized Linear Model
Hong Jaio, Shudong Wang, and Akihito
Kamata
The Cross-Classified Multilevel Measurement Model: An
Explanation and Demonstration
S. Natasha Beretvas, Jason L. Meyers, and Rolando A.
Rodriguez
Test Equating in the Presence of DIF
Items
Kwang-lee Chu and Akihito Kamata
Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 2005
Unique Properties of Rasch Model Item Information
Functions
Randall Penfield
Evaluation of the Diabetes Self-Care
Scale
Nantawadee P. Lee and William P. Fisher,
Jr.
Rasch Analysis Examining Processing Mechanisms of the
Object Location Memory Test
Tracy L. Kline and Karen M. Schmidt
Using the Rasch Model to Develop a Measure of Second
Language Learners’ Willingness to Communicate within a Language
Classroom
Christopher Weaver
Knowledge and Understanding Asia: Using a Common Item
Pool to Obtain National Estimates
Patrick Griffin and Kerry Woods
Measuring and Comparing Higher Education Quality between
Countries Worldwide
Anatoli A. Maslak, George Karabatsos, Tatijana S.
Anisimova, and Sergi A. Osipov
Understanding Rasch Measurement: The Relationship
between the Rating Scale and Partial Credit Models and the Implication of
Disordered Thresholds of the Rasch Models for Polychotomous
Responses
Guanzhong Luo
Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2006
Expansion of a Physical Function Item Bank and
Development of an Abbreviated Form for Clinical Research
Rita K. Bode, Jin-shei Lai, Kelly Dineen, Allen W.
Heinemann, Danial Shevrin, Jamie Von Roenn, and David Cella
Using Rasch Analysis to Test the Cross-Cultural Item
Equivalence of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire and the Hopkins Symptom
Checklist Across Vietnamese and Cambodian Immigrant
Mothers
Yoonsun Choi, Amy Mericle, and Tracy W.
Harachi
Using Rasch Measurement to Investigate Volleyball Skills
and Inform Coaching
Ryan P. Bowles and Nilam Ram
The Assessment of Diabetes Knowledge and Self-Efficacy
in a Diverse Population using Rasch Measurement
Ben S. Gerber, Maria Pagcatipunan, Everett V. Smith,
Jr., Semonti S. Basu, Kimberly A Lawless, Louanne I. Smolin, Michael L. Berbaum,
Irwin G. Brodsky, and Arnold R. Eiser
Using LinLog and FACETS to Model Item Components in the
LLTM
Tracy L. Kline, Karen M. Schmidt, and Ryan
Bowles
Development of a Comprehensiveness of Rasch Measurement
Application Scale
Iasonas Lamprianou
Issues in Multi-Item Scale Testing and Development using
Structural Equation Models
Shaun McQuitty and James W. Bishop
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Rasch Analysis of
Rank-Ordered Data
John M. Linacre
Memorial – The Measure of a Man: Nam
Raju
Rita K. Bode
Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer 2006
Rasch Analysis of a New Construct: Functional Caregiving
for Adult Children with Intellectual Disabilities
Shu-Pi C. Chen, Nikolaus Bezruczko, and Sheila
Ryan-Henery
Whose Criterion Standard Is It
Anyway?
Gregory E. Stone
Adjusted Rasch Person Fit
Statistics
Dimiter M. Dimitrov and Richard M. Smith
From Rasch Scores to Regression
Karl Bang Christensen
The Stability of Marker Characteristics Across Tests of
the Same Subject and Across Students
Iasonas Lamprianou
Development of a Money Mismanagement Measure and
Cross-Validation Due to Suspected Range Restriction
Kendon J. Conrad, Michael D. Matters, Daniel J. Luchins,
Patricia Hanrahan, Danielle L. Quasius, and George Lutz
Understanding Rasch Measurement: The Mixed Rasch Model:
An Example for Analyzing the meaning of Response Latencies in a Personality
Questionnaire
Michaela M. Wagner-Menghin
Vol. 7, No. 3 Fall 2006
Measuring Teacher Ability with the Rasch Model by
Scaling a Series of Product and Performance Tasks
Judy R. Wilkerson and William Steve Lang
An Introduction to the Theory of Unidimensional
Unfolding
Andrew Kyngdon
Estimating Person Locations from Partial Credit Data
Containing Missing Responsess
R. J. De Ayala
Validation of a Questionnaire Used to Assess Safety and
Professionalism among Arborists
Steven G. Viger, Edward W. Wolfe, Hallie Dozier, and
Krisanna Machtmes
How Accurate Are Lexile Text Measures?
A. Jackson Stenner, Hall Burdick, Eleanor E. Sanford,
and Donald S. Burdick
Rasch Analysis of the Structure of Health Risk Behavior
in South African Adolescents
Elias Mpofu, Linda Caldwell, Edward Smith, Alan J.
Fisher, Christine Mathews, Lisa Wagner, and Tania Vergnani
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Multicomponent Latent
Trait Models for Complex Tasks
Susan E. Embretson and Xiangdong Ya
Vol. 7, No. 4 Winter 2006
Standard Systems: The Foundational Element of
Measurement Theory
Marion S. Aftanas
An Empirical Study into the Theory of Unidimensional
Unfolding
Andrew Kyngdon
Expanding an Existing Multiple Choice Test with a Mixed
Format Test: Simulation Studies on Sample Size and Item Recovery in Concurrent
Calibration
Insu Paek and Michael J. Young
Fitting Polychotomous Rasch Models in
SAS
Karl Bang Christensen
The Development and Validation of the Self-Directed
Learning Scales (SLS)
Magdalena Mo Ching Mok, Cheng Yin Cheong, Phillip John
Moore, and Kerry John Kennedy
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Using Paired
Comparisons to Create the Semantic Construct of Frequency
Thomas R. O’Neill
Vol. 8, No. 1 Spring 2007
Attitudes, Order and Quantity: Deterministic and Direct
Probabilistic Tests of Unidimensional Unfolding
Andrew Kyngdon and Ben Richards
Conception and Construction of a Rasch-Scaled Measure
for Self-Confidence in One’s Vocabulary Ability
Michaela M. Wagner-Menghin
Relative Precision, Efficiency and Construct Validity of
Different Starting and Stopping Rules for a Computerized Adaptive Test: The GAIN
Substance Problem Scale
Barth B. Riley, Kendon J. Conrad, Nikolaus Bezruczko,
and Michael L. Dennis
Bookmark Locations and Item Response Model Selection in
the Presence of Local Item Dependence
Garry Skaggs
Comparing Concurrent versus Fixed Parameter equating
with Common Items: Using the Rasch Dichotomous and Partial Credit Models in a
Mixed Item-Format Test
Husein M. Taherbhai and Daer Yong Seo
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Instrument Development
Tools and Activities for Measure Validation using Rasch Models: Part I –
Instrument Development Tools
Edward W. Wolfe and Everett V. Smith,
Jr.
Vol. 8, No. 2 Summer 2007
Mental Self Government: Development of the Additional
Democratic Learning Style using Rasch Measurement Models
Tine Nielsen, Svend Kreiner, and Irene
Styles
Measuring Math Anxiety (in Spanish) with the Rasch
Rating Scale Model
Derardo Prieto and Ana R. Delgado
Using Rasch Analysis to Construct a Clinical
Problem-Solving Inventory in the Dental Clinic: A Case
Study
Chien-Lin Yang and Gene A. Kramer
Evidence-Based Practice for Equating Health Status
Items: Sample Size and IRT Model
Karon F. Cook, Patrick W. Taylor, Barbara G. Dodd, Cayla
R. Teal, and Colleen McHorney
Computing Confidence Intervals of Item Fit Statistics in
the Family of Rasch Models using the Bootstrap Method
Ya-Hui Su, Ching-Fan Sheu, and Wen-Chung
Wang
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Instrument Development
Tools and Activities for Measure Validation using Rasch Models: Part II –
Validation Activities
Edward W. Wolfe and Everett V. Smith,
Jr.
Vol. 8, No. 3 Fall 2007
The Programme for International Assessment: An
Overview
Ross Turner and Raymond J. Adams
Translation Equivalence across PISA
Countries
Aleetta Grisay, John H. A. L. de Jong, Eveline Gebhardt,
Alla Berezner, and Beatrice Halleux-Monseur
Ameliorating Culturally Based Extreme Item Tendencies to
Attitude Items
Maurice Walker
The Impact of Differential Investment of Student Effort
on the Outcomes of International Studies
Jayne Butler and Raymond J. Adams
The Influence of Equating Methodology on Reported Trends
in PISA
Eveline Gebhardt and Raymond J. Adams
The Computation of Equating Errors in International
Surveys in Education
Christian Monseur and Alla Berezner
Vol. 8, No. 4 Winter 2007
Nonequivalent Survey Consolidation: An Example From
Functional Caregiving
Nikolaus Bezruczko and Shu-Pi C. Chen
Mindfulness Practice: A Rasch Variable Construct
Innovation
Sharon G. Solloway and William P. Fisher,
Jr.
Substance Use Disorder Symptoms: Evidence of
Differential Item Functioning by Age
Kendon J. Conrad, Michael L. Dennis, Nikolaus Bezruczko,
Rodney R. Funk, and Barth B. Riley
A
Monte Carlo Study of the Impact of Missing Data and Differential Item
Functioning on Theta Estimates from Two Polytomous Rasch Family
Models
Carolyn F. Furlow, Rachel T. Fouladi, Phill Gagné, and
Tiffany A. Whittaker
Investigation of 360-Degree Instrumentation Effects:
Application of the RASCH Rating Scale Model
John T. Kulas and Kelly M. Hannum
Rasch Measurement of Self-Regulated Learning in an
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-rich
Environment
Joseph N. Njiru and Russell F. Waugh
Understanding Rasch Measurement: The Saltus Model
Applied to Proportional Reasoning Data
Karen Draney
Vol. 9, No. 1 Spring 2008
Strategies for Controlling Item Exposure in Computerized
Adaptive Testing with the Partial Credit Model
Laurie Laughlin Davis and Barbara G.
Dodd
A
Multidimensional Rasch Analysis of Gender Differences in PISA
Mathematics
Ou Lydia Liu, Mark Wilson, and Insu Paek
An Exploration of Correctional Staff Members’ Views of
Inmate Amenities: A Scaling Approach
Elizabeth Ehrhardt Mustaine, George E. Higgins, and
Richard Tewksbury
Measuring Job Satisfaction in the Social Services Sector
with the Rasch Model
Eugenio Brentari and Silvia Golia
Comparing Screening Approaches to Investigate Stability
of Common Items in Rasch Equating
Alvaro J. Arce-Ferrer
Estimation of the Accessibility of Items and the
Confidence of Candidates: A Rasch-Based Approach
A. A. Korabinski, M. A. Youngson, and M.
McAlpine
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Binary Items and
Beyond:A Simulation of Computer Adaptive Testing Using the Rasch Partial Credit
Model
Rense Lange
Vol. 9, No. 2 Summer 2008
Effects of Varying Magnitude and Patterns of Response
Dependence in the Unidimensional Rasch Model
Ida Marais and David Andrich
Fisher’s Information Function and Rasch
Measurement
Mark H. Stone
A
Rasch Analysis for Classification of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Mixed
Connective Tissue Disease
Kyle Perkins, Robert W. Hoffman, and Nikolaus
Bezruczko
Magnitude Estimation and Categorical Rating Scaling in
Social Sciences: A Theoretical and Psychometric
Controversy
Svetlana A. Beltyukova, Gregory E. Stone, and Christine
M. Fox
Impact of Altering Randomization Intervals on Precision
of Measurement and Item Exposure
Timothy Muckle, Betty Bergstrom, Kirk Becker, and John
Stahl
Rasch Rating Scale Modeling of Data from the
Standardized Letter of Recommendation
Sooyeon Kim and Patrick C. Kyllonen
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Understanding Rasch
Measurement: Using Rasch Scaled Stage Scores to Validate Orders of Hierarchical
Complexity of Balance Beam Task Sequences
Michael Lamport Commons, Eric Andrew Goodheart,
Alexander Pekker, Theo Linda Dawson, Karen Draney, and Kathryn Marie
Adams
Vol. 9, No. 3 Fall 2008
Formalizing Dimension and Response Violations of Local
Independence in the Unidimensional Rasch Model
Ida Marais and David Andrich
Overcoming Vertical Equating Complications in the
Calibration of an Integer Ability Scale for Measuring Outcomes of a Teaching
Experiment
Andreas Koukkoufis and Julian Williams
Understanding the Unit in the Rasch
Model
Stephen M. Humphry and David Andrich
Calibration of Multiple-Choice Questionnaires to Assess
Quantitative Indicators
Paola Annoni and Pieralda Ferrari
The Impact of Data Collection Design, Linking Method,
and Sample Size on Vertical Scaling Using the Rasch Model
Insu Paek, Michael J. Young, and Qing Yi
Factor Structure of the Developmental Behavior Checklist
using Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Polytomous Items
Daniel E. Bontempo, Scott. M. Hofer, Andrew Mackinnon,
Andrea M. Piccinin, Kylie Gray, Bruce Tonge, and Stewart Einfeld
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Estimation of Decision
Consistency Indices for Complex Assessments: Model Based
Approaches
Matthew Stearns and Richard M. Smith
Vol. 9, No. 4 Winter 2008
The Differential Impact of Resolution Methods on the
Operational Scores of Gender and Ethnic Groups
Shiqi Hao, Robert L. Johnson, and James
Penny
A
Rasch Measurement Analysis of the Use of Cohesive Devices in Writing English as
a Foreign Language by Secondary Students in Hong Kong
Margaret Lai Fun Ho and Russell F. Waugh
Linking Classical Test Theory and Two-level Hierarchical
Linear Models
Yasuo Miyazaki and Gary Skaggs
Measuring Self-Complexity: A Critical Analysis of
Linville’s H Statistic
Wenshu Luo, David Watkins, and Raymond Y. H.
Lam
Measuring Cynicism Toward Organizational Change — One
Dimension or Two?
Simon Albrecht
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Assessment of
Differential Item Functioning
Wen-Chung Wang
Vol. 10, No. 1 Spring 2009
Comparison of Single- and Double-Assessor Scoring
Designs for the Assessment of Accomplished Teaching
George Engelhard, Jr. and Carol M.
Myford
Mapping Multiple Dimensions of Student Learning: The
GradeMap Program
Cathleen A. Kennedy and Karen Draney
A
Rasch Model Prototype for Assessing Vocabulary Learning Resulting from Different
Instructional Methods: A Preschool Example
Cynthia B. Leung and William Steve Lang
Response Dependence and the Measurement of Change
Ida Marais
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Teacher’s
Judgments and Fit Statistics of the Partial Credit Model
Sun-Geun Baek and Hye-Sook Kim
Using Paired Comparison Matrices to Estimate Parameters
of the Partial Credit Rasch Measurement Model for Rater-Mediated
Assessments
Mary Garner and George Engelhard, Jr.
Toward a Domain Theory in English as a Second
Language
Diane Strong-Krause
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Tools for Measuring
Academic Growth
G. Gage Kingsbury, Martha McCall, and Carl
Hauser
Vol. 10, No. 2 Summer 2009
The Relationships Among Design Experiments, Invariant
Measurement Scales, and Domain Theories
C. Victor Bunderson and Van A. Newby
Considerations About Expected a Posteriori Estimation in
Adaptive Testing: Adaptive a Priori, Adaptive Correction for Bias, and Adaptive
Integration Interval
Gilles Raîche and Jean-Guy Blais
Local Independence and Residual Covariance: A Study of
Olympic Figure Skating Ratings
John M. Linacre
Constructing One Scale to Describe Two Statewide
Exams
Insu Paek, Deborah G. Peres, and Mark
Wilson
Multidimensional Models in a Developmental
Context
Yiyu Xie and Theo L. Dawson
An Application of the Multidimensional Random
Coefficients Multinomial Logit Model to Evaluating Cognitive Models of Reasoning
in Genetics
Edward W. Wolfe, Daniel T. Hickey, and Ann C.H.
Kindfield
Understanding Rasch Measurement: The ISR: Intelligent
Student Reports
Ronald Mead
Vol. 10, No. 3 Fall 2009
Using Classical and Modern Measurement Theories to
Explore Rater, Domain, and Gender Influences on Student Writing
Ability
Ismail S. Gyagenda and George Engelhard,
Jr.
The Efficacy of Link Items in the Construction of a
Numeracy Achievement Scale—from Kindergarten to Year 6
Juho Looveer and Joanne Mulligan
The Study Skills Self-Efficacy Scale for Use with
Chinese Students
Mantak Yuen, Everett V. Smith, Jr., Lidia Dobria, and
Qiong Fu
Rasch Family Models in e-Learning: Analyzing
Architectural Sketching with a Digital Pen
Kathleen Scalise, Nancy Yen-wen Cheng, and Nargas
Oskui
Measuring Measuring: Toward a Theory of Proficiency with
the Constructing Measures Framework
Brent Duckor, Karen Draney, and Mark
Wilson
Plausible Values: How to Deal with Their
Limitations
Christian Monseur and Raymond Adams
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Item and Rater Analysis
of Constructed Response Items via the Multi-Faceted Rasch
Model
Edward W. Wolfe
Vol. 10, No. 4 Winter 2009
The Rasch Model and Additive Conjoint Measurement
Van A. Newby, Gregory R. Conner, Christopher P. Grant,
and C. Victor Bunderson
The Construction and Implementation of User-Defined Fit
Tests for Use with Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Generalized Item
Response Models
Raymond J. Adams and Margaret L. Wu
Development of a Multidimensional Measure of Academic
Engagement
Kyra Caspary and Maria Veronica
Santelices
Random Parameter Structure and the Testlet Model:
Extension of the Rasch Testlet Model
Insu Paek, Haniza Yon, Mark Wilson, and Taehoon
Kang
A
Comparative Analysis of the Ratings in Performance Assessment Using
Generalizability Theory and Many-Facet Rasch Model
Sungsook C. Kim and Mark Wilson
The Family Approach to Assessing Fit in Rasch
Measurement
Richard M. Smith and Christie Plackner
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Standard Setting with
Dichotomous and Constructed Response Items: Some Rasch Model Approaches
Robert G. MacCann
Vol. 11, No. 1 Spring 2010
Predicting Responses from Rasch
Measures
John M. Linacre
Concrete, Abstract, Formal, and Systematic Operations as
Observed in a “Piagetian” Balance-Beam Task Series
Theo Linda Dawson, Eric Andrew Goodheart, Karen Draney,
Mark Wilson, and Michael Lamport Commons
Sources of Self-Efficacy Belief: Development and
Validation of Two Scales
Ou Lydia Liu and Mark Wilson
Reducible or Irreducible? Mathematical Reasoning and the
Ontological Method
William P. Fisher, Jr.
Children’s Understanding of Area Concepts: Development,
Curriculum and Educational Achievement
Trevor G. Bond and Kellie Parkinson
Thinking about Thinking—Thinking about Measurement: A
Rasch Analysis of Recursive Thinking
Ulrich Müeller and Willis F. Overton
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Psychometric Aspects of
Item Mapping for Criterion-Referenced Interpretation and Bookmark Standard
Setting
Huynh Huynh
Vol. 11, No. 2 Summer 2010
Using Item Response Modeling Methods to Test Theory
Related to Human Performance
Diane D. Allen
From Model to Measurement with Dichotomous
Items
Don Burdick, A. Jackson Stenner, and Andrew
Kyngdon
Using Guttman’s Mapping Sentences and Many Facet Rasch
Measurement Theory to Develop an Instrument that Examines the Grading
Philosophies of Teachers
Jennifer Randall and George Engelhard,
Jr.
Development of Scales Relating to Professional
Development of Community College Administrators
Edward W. Wolfe and Kim E. Van Der
Linden
Comparing Décalage and Development with Cognitive
Developmental Tests
Trevor G. Bond
Reliability of Performance Examinations:
Revisited
Mary E. Lunz and John M. Linacre
Understanding Rasch Measurement: Equating Designs and
Procedures Used in Rasch Scaling
Gary Skaggs and Edward W. Wolfe