An Introduction to Item Response Theory Using the Need for Cognition Scale

By M. C. Edwards. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research

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• Practical Guide to Conducting an Item Response Theory Analysis (2014, methodology): “If, however, the scale is intended to measure one latent trait variable, then problematic items can be removed from the analysis to achieve plausible unidimensionality for the purposes of IRT analysis (Edwards, 2009).”
• The measurement of populist attitudes: Testing cross-national scales using item response theory (2020, background): “In a simple additive score, all items and categories would be weighted the same (cf. Edwards, 2009).”
• An IRT analysis of motive questionnaires: The Unified Motive Scales (2012, background): “Although all fear 4 For relatively nontechnical introductions and applications of the GRM to personality questionnaires, see for example, Edwards (2009), Fraley, Waller, and Brennan (2000), or Scherbaum, Cohen-Charash, and Kern (2006). clusters collapsed on one factor in the cluster level EFA, we…”