Latent Trait and Latent Class Models

✍ Scribed by Rolf Langeheine, Jürgen Rost (auth.), Rolf Langeheine, Jürgen Rost (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is based on an international conference held at the Institute for Science Education (IPN) in Kiel in August 1985. The IPN is a national research institute for science education of the Federal Republic of Germany associated with the University of Kiel. The aim of this conference-to treat latent trait and latent class models under comparative points of view as well as under application aspects-was realized in many stimulating contributions and very different ways. We asked the authors of these papers to work out their contributions for publication here, not only because many of the papers present new material, but also because the time is ripe for a comprehen­ sive volume, working up the widespread literature of the past ten years in this field. We have tried to compile a volume that will be of interest to statistically oriented researchers in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, education, political science, epidemiology, and the like. Although the chapters assume a reasonably high level of methodo­ logical sophistication, we hope that the book will find its way into advanced courses in the above fields. We are grateful to the IPN for organizing the conference, to our contributors for their untiring efforts in revising their chapters for publication, and to the staff of Plenum Publishing Corporation for helping to make this book a reality.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Measurement Models for Ordered Response Categories....Pages 11-29
Testing a Latent Trait Model....Pages 31-50
Latent Trait Models with Indicators of Mixed Measurement Level....Pages 51-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
New Developments in Latent Class Theory....Pages 77-108
Log-linear Modeling, Latent Class Analysis, or Correspondence Analysis....Pages 109-127
A Latent Class Covariate Model with Applications to Criterion-Referenced Testing....Pages 129-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Test Theory with Qualitative and Quantitative Latent Variables....Pages 147-171
Latent Class Models for Measuring....Pages 173-205
Comparison of Latent Structure Models....Pages 207-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Latent Variable Techniques for Measuring Development....Pages 233-261
Item Bias and Test Multidimensionality....Pages 263-275
On a Rasch-Model-Based Test for Noncomputerized Adaptive Testing....Pages 277-289
Systematizing the Item Content in Test Design....Pages 291-307
Back Matter....Pages 309-311

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Statistics, general