Evaluation of the efficiency of item calibration

Vale, C. David
Gialluca, Kathleen A.
1988
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Evaluation of the efficiency of item calibration

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This study compared several IRT calibration procedures to determine which procedure, if any, consistently produced the most accurate item parameter estimates. A new criterion of calibration efficiency was used for evaluating the calibration procedures; this criterion considers the joint effects of individual item parameter errors as they relate to the accuracy of &thetas; estimation. Four methods of item calibration were evaluated: (1) heuristic estimates obtained from transformations of traditional item statistics; (2) ANCILLES, a program that first fits the c parameter and then transforms traditional item statistics to IRT a and b parameters ; (3) LOGIST, a joint maximum likelihood procedure ; and (4) ASCAL, a modification of LOGIST’S algorithm which applies Bayesian priors to the abilities and item parameters. These were compared with each other and with a constant item parameter baseline condition. ASCAL and LOGIST produced estimates of essentially equivalent accuracy, although ASCAL’s estimates of the c parameters were slightly superior. The heuristic estimates and those from ANCILLES were generally poor in comparison, particularly for smaller sample sizes. Index terms: Calibration efficiency, Item calibration, Item parameter estimation, Item response theory, Latent trait models.

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Applied Psychological Measurement, Volume 12, 1988

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Vale, C. David & Gialluca, Kathleen A. (1988). Evaluation of the efficiency of item calibration. Applied Psychological Measurement, 12, 53-67. doi:10.1177/014662168801200106

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