Examining Invariant Item Ordering Using Mokken Scale Analysis for Polytomously Scored Items


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KOĞAR H.

JOURNAL OF MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY-EPOD, cilt.9, sa.4, ss.312-325, 2018 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 9 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.21031/epod.412689
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY-EPOD
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.312-325
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Invariant item ordering, mokken scale analysis, polytomous items, polytomous item response theory
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The aim of the present study is to identify and compare the number of items violating the item ordering, the total number of item pairs causing violation, the test statistics averages and the H-T values of the overall test obtained from three separate Mokken II0 models in the simulative datasets generated by the graded response model. All the simulation conditions were comprised of 108 cells: 3 (minimum coefficient of a violation) x 2 (item discrimination levels) x 3 (sample sizes) x 2 (number of items) x 3 (response categories). MIIO, MSCPM and IT methods were used for data analysis. When the findings were considered in general, it was found that the MII0 method yielded the most stable values due to the fact that it was not affected by the lowest violation coefficient and was affected only slightly by simulation conditions. Especially in conditions where the violation coefficient was 0.03 (the default value in the Mokken package), it was recommended to use the MHO method in identifying item ordering. Even though the MSCPM method yielded similar findings to those of the IT method, it generated more stable findings in particularly high sample sizes. In conditions where sample size, number of items and item discrimination were high, the MSCPM was recommended to be used.