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This chapter gives an overview of a family of unidimensional Rasch models where the item parameters are linearly decomposed into certain “basic” parameters. The latter are attached—depending on the particular kind of application—to cognitive operations required for solving the items, to testing situations, or to treatments given to the persons between testing occasions. Typical applications (see below) have sought to assess the difficulty of cognitive operations as elements of the solution process, but the models can just as well be used for measuring the effects of experimental conditions on item difficulty, or the impact of educational treatments on an ability, of therapies on a personality trait, or of communication on an attitude. Such models are available both for cases of dichotomous and for polytomous items.
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Fischer, G.H. (1997). Unidimensional Linear Logistic Rasch Models. In: van der Linden, W.J., Hambleton, R.K. (eds) Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2691-6_13
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