Assessing Parameter Invariance in the BLIM: Bipartition Models

Debora Chiusole (), Luca Stefanutti, Pasquale Anselmi and Egidio Robusto

Psychometrika, 2013, vol. 78, issue 4, 710-724

Abstract: In knowledge space theory, the knowledge state of a student is the set of all problems he is capable of solving in a specific knowledge domain and a knowledge structure is the collection of knowledge states. The basic local independence model (BLIM) is a probabilistic model for knowledge structures. The BLIM assumes a probability distribution on the knowledge states and a lucky guess and a careless error probability for each problem. A key assumption of the BLIM is that the lucky guess and careless error probabilities do not depend on knowledge states (invariance assumption). This article proposes a method for testing the violations of this specific assumption. The proposed method was assessed in a simulation study and in an empirical application. The results show that (1) the invariance assumption might be violated by the empirical data even when the model’s fit is very good, and (2) the proposed method may prove to be a promising tool to detect invariance violations of the BLIM. Copyright The Psychometric Society 2013

Keywords: basic local independence model; knowledge space theory; parameter invariance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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