Journal
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 3-18Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/01466216211051717
Keywords
explanatory item response theory; latent regression; collateral information; Markov chain Monte Carlo; ideal point
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This study explores the benefits of using collateral information in noncognitive measurement, introduces a new model approach, and conducts a simulation study showing superior accuracy and precision compared to traditional methods.
Collateral information has been used to address subpopulation heterogeneity and increase estimation accuracy in some large-scale cognitive assessments. The methodology that takes collateral information into account has not been developed and explored in published research with models designed specifically for noncognitive measurement. Because the accurate noncognitive measurement is becoming increasingly important, we sought to examine the benefits of using collateral information in latent trait estimation with an item response theory model that has proven valuable for noncognitive testing, namely, the generalized graded unfolding model (GGUM). Our presentation introduces an extension of the GGUM that incorporates collateral information, henceforth called Explanatory GGUM. We then present a simulation study that examined Explanatory GGUM latent trait estimation as a function of sample size, test length, number of background covariates, and correlation between the covariates and the latent trait. Results indicated the Explanatory GGUM approach provides scoring accuracy and precision superior to traditional expected a posteriori (EAP) and full Bayesian (FB) methods. Implications and recommendations are discussed.
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