ABSTRACT

Over the past 30 years, a proliferation of item response models has emerged. In the Rasch logistic item response model family, notably, the simple logistic model (Rasch, 1980; Volume One, Chapter 3), the partial credit model (Volume One, Chapter 7), the rating scale model (Volume One, Chapter 5), the facets model (Linacre, 1989) and the linear logistic model (Fischer, 1973; Volume One, Chapter 13) have all played an important role in the analysis

CONTENTS

32.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 541 32.2 Presentation of the Models ...............................................................................................542