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In many educational and psychological measurement situations there is an underlying variable of interest. This variable is often something that is intuitively understood, such as “intelligence.” People can be described as being bright or average and the listener has some idea as to what the speaker is conveying about the object of the discussion.
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Baker, F.B., Kim, SH. (2017). The Item Characteristic Curve. In: The Basics of Item Response Theory Using R. Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54205-8_1
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