本书给出了实际测试问题中的项目反应理论的应用。项目反应理论因其在测试项目中反应的理论模型上的优势被大家所熟知，但在为日常测试问题中提供创新性的解的方面也取得了相同进展。本书着重于阐释其主要应用。本书具体内容包含了测试项目校准、项目分析、模型拟合检验、测试得分解释、最优测试设计、自适性测试、标准制定以及反应数据的分析取证等方面的应用。

Contents for Models
Contents for Statistical Tools
Preface
Contributors
Section Ⅰ Item Calibration and Analysis
1. Item-Calibration Designs
Martijn P. F. Berger
2. Parameter Linking
Wim J. van der Linden and Michelle D. Barrett
3. Dimensionality Analysis
Robert D. Gibbons and Li Cai
4. Differential Item Functioning
Dani Gamerman, Fldvio B. Gon~alves, and Tuff M. Soares
5. Calibrating Technology-Enhanced Items
Richard M. Luecht
Section Ⅱ Person Fit and Scoring
6. Person Fit
Cees A. W. Glas and Naveed Khalid
7. Score Reporting and Interpretation
Ronald K. Hambleton and April L. Zenisky
8. IRT Observed-Score Equating
Wire J. van der Linden
Section Ⅲ Test Design
9. Optimal Test Design
Wim J. van der Linden
10. Adaptive Testing
Wim J. van der Linden
11. Standard Setting
Daniel Lewis and Jennifer Lord-Bessen
12. Test Speededness and Time Limits
Wim J. van der Linden
13. Item and Test Security
Wim J. van der Linden
Section Ⅳ Areas of Application
14. Large-Scale Group-Score Assessments
John Mazzeo
15. Psychological Testing
Paul De Boeck
16. Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment
Chun Wang and Hua-Hua Chang
17. Health Measurement
Richard C. Gershon, Ron D. Hays, and Michael A. Kallen
18. Marketing Research
Martijn G. de Jong and Ulf Backenholt
19. Measuring Change Using Rasch Models
Gerhard H. Fischer
Section Ⅴ Computer Programs
20. IRT Packages in R
Thomas Rusch, Patrick Mair, and Reinhold Hatzinger
21. Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling (BUGS) for IRT Models ...
Matthew S. Johnson
22. BILOG-MG
Michele F. Zimowski
23. PARSCALE
Eiji Mu raki
24. IRTPRO
Li Cai
25. Xcalibre 4
Nathan A. Thompson and Jieun Lee
26. EQSIRT
Peter M. Bentler, Eric Wu, and Patrick Mair
27. ACER ConQuest
Raymond J. Adams, Margaret L. Wu, and Mark R. Wilson
28. Mplus
Bengt Muthen and Linda Muthen
29. gllamm
Sophia Rabe-Hesketh and Anders Skrondal
30. Latent GOLD
Jeroen K. Vermunt
31. WinGen
Kyung (Chris) T. Han
32. Firestar
Seung W. Choi
33. jMetrik
J. Patrick Meyer
Index
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