A Hierarchical Framework for Modeling Speed and Accuracy on Test Items

Autor/in	van der Linden, Wim J.
Titel	A Hierarchical Framework for Modeling Speed and Accuracy on Test Items
Quelle	In: Psychometrika, 72 (2007) 3, S.287-308 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3123
DOI	10.1007/s11336-006-1478-z
Schlagwörter	Test Items; Reaction Time; Markov Processes; Item Response Theory; Models; Psychological Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Test content; Testaufgabe; Reaktionsvermögen; Markowscher Prozess; Item-Response-Theorie; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Current modeling of response times on test items has been strongly influenced by the paradigm of experimental reaction-time research in psychology. For instance, some of the models have a parameter structure that was chosen to represent a speed-accuracy tradeoff, while others equate speed directly with response time. Also, several response-time models seem to be unclear as to the level of parametrization they represent. A hierarchical framework for modeling speed and accuracy on test items is presented as an alternative to these models. The framework allows a "plug-and-play approach" with alternative choices of models for the response and response-time distributions as well as the distributions of their parameters. Bayesian treatment of the framework with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) computation facilitates the approach. Use of the framework is illustrated for the choice of a normal-ogive response model, a lognormal model for the response times, and multivariate normal models for their parameters with Gibbs sampling from the joint posterior distribution. (Author).
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