Students’ proficiency scores within multitrait item response theory

In this paper we present a series of item response models of data collected using the Force Concept Inventory. The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was designed to poll the Newtonian conception of force viewed as a multidimensional concept, that is, as a complex of distinguishable conceptual dimensions...

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Main Authors: Terry F. Scott, Daniel Schumayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015-11-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.11.020134