Item Characteristic Curves

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In item response theory, an item characteristic curve describes the relationship between a latent ability and the performance on a test item. This Demonstration plots the item characteristic curves of two items. Change the item parameters to see the effect of different values.
Contributed by: Vincent Kieftenbeld (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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In the three-parameter logistic model, the probability that a person with ability level gives a correct response to an item with discrimination parameter
, difficulty parameter
, and pseudo-guessing parameter
is modelled as
.
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"Item Characteristic Curves"
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Published: March 7 2011