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The One-Parameter Logistic Model Can Be True With Zero Probability for a Unidimensional Measuring Instrument: How One Could Go Wrong Removing Items Not Satisfying the Model

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Educational and Psychological Measurement

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Abstract

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print.
This note is concerned with the chance of the one-parameter logistic (1PL-) model or the Rasch model being true for a unidimensional multi-item measuring instrument. It is pointed out that if a single dimension underlies a scale consisting of dichotomous ...