Keyword

item difficulty

Description: Item difficulty is the level of challenge a test question presents to examinees, represented in educational measurement and item response theory.

Primary topic: Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (38%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/item-difficulty

Scale Development : Theory and Applications

1991 · Robert F. DeVellis · 15,552

The weighing of evidence and the determinants of confidence

1992 · Dale Griffin, Amos Tversky · Cognitive Psychology · 1,842

Measuring nicotine dependence: A review of the Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire

1989 · Karl -Oiov Fagerstrom, Nina G. Schneider · Journal of Behavioral Medicine · 1,599

Probabilistic mental models: A Brunswikian theory of confidence.

1991 · Gerd Gigerenzer, Ulrich Hoffrage, et al. · Psychological Review · 1,506

Monitoring one's own knowledge during study: A cue-utilization approach to judgments of learning.

1997 · Asher Koriat · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1,355

On the Validity of the Beck Depression Inventory

1998 · Paul Richter, Joachim Werner, et al. · Psychopathology · 1,111

Do those who know more also know more about how much they know?

1977 · Sarah Lichtenstein, Baruch Fischhoff · Organizational Behavior and Human Performance · 1,081

Initial Scale Development: Sample Size for Pilot Studies

2009 · George A. Johanson, Gordon P. Brooks · Educational and Psychological Measurement · 1,006

Rasch analysis of a new stroke-specific outcome scale: the stroke impact scale11No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

2003 · Pamela W Duncan, Rita K Bode, et al. · Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation · 909

The selection of upper and lower groups for the validation of test items.

1939 · T. L. Kelley · Journal of Educational Psychology · 773

Performance Profiles of the Functional Independence Measure

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Fitting a Response Model for n Dichotomously Scored Items

1970 · R. Darrell Bock, Marcus Lieberman · Psychometrika · 615

Overview of Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory for the Quantitative Assessment of Items in Developing Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures

2014 · Joseph C. Cappelleri, J. Jason Lundy, et al. · Clinical Therapeutics · 581

BILOG 3 : item analysis and test scoring with binary logistic models

1990 · Robert J. Mislevy, R. Darrell Bock · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 539

The Auditory Analysis Test

1971 · Jerome Rosner, Dorothea P. Simon · Journal of Learning Disabilities · 464

The Difficulty of Test Items That Measure More Than One Ability

1985 · Mark D. Reckase · Applied Psychological Measurement · 424

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Evaluating an electricity and magnetism assessment tool: Brief electricity and magnetism assessment

2006 · Lin Ding, Ruth Chabay, et al. · Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research · 413

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Bayesian Estimation of a Multilevel IRT Model Using Gibbs Sampling

2001 · Jean-Paul Fox, Cees A. W. Glas · Psychometrika · 398

Naive empiricism and dogmatism in confidence research: A critical examination of the hard-easy effect.

2000 · Peter Juslin, Anders Winman, et al. · Psychological Review · 394

A Procedure for Sample-Free Item Analysis

1969 · Benjamin Wright, Nargis Panchapakesan · Educational and Psychological Measurement · 385

Problems in the measurement of cognitive deficits.

1973 · Loren J. Chapman, Jean P. Chapman · Psychological Bulletin · 383

Measurement and Assessment in Education

2005 · Cecil R. Reynolds, Ronald B. Livingston, et al. · 382

An Item Analysis Which Takes Individual Differences Into Account

1966 · G. Rasch · British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology · 378

Temporal Gradients in the Retrograde Amnesia of Patients With Alcoholic Korsakoff's Disease

1979 · M. S. Albert, N. Butters, et al. · Archives of Neurology · 332

Sex differences in odor identification ability: A cross-cultural analysis

1985 · Richard L. Doty, Steven Applebaum, et al. · Neuropsychologia · 322

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