A New Online Calibration Method Based on Lord's Bias-Correction.
Journal:
Applied psychological measurement
Published Date:
Mar 26, 2017
Abstract
Online calibration technique has been widely employed to calibrate new items due to its advantages. Method A is the simplest online calibration method and has attracted many attentions from researchers recently. However, a key assumption of Method A is that it treats person-parameter estimates (obtained by maximum likelihood estimation [MLE]) as their true values , thus the deviation of the estimated from their true values might yield inaccurate item calibration when the deviation is nonignorable. To improve the performance of Method A, a new method, MLE-LBCI-Method A, is proposed. This new method combines a modified Lord's bias-correction method (named as [MLE-LBCI]) with the original Method A in an effort to correct the deviation of which may adversely affect the item calibration precision. Two simulation studies were carried out to explore the performance of both MLE-LBCI and MLE-LBCI-Method A under several scenarios. Simulation results showed that MLE-LBCI could make a significant improvement over the ML ability estimates, and MLE-LBCI-Method A did outperform Method A in almost all experimental conditions.
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