 A Note on the Hierarchical Model for Responses and Response Times in Tests of van der Linden (2007)Jochen Ranger () Psychometrika, 2013, vol. 78, issue 3, 538-544 Abstract: Findings suggest that in psychological tests not only the responses but also the times needed to give the responses are related to characteristics of the test taker. This observation has stimulated the development of latent trait models for the joint distribution of the responses and the response times. Such models are motivated by the hope to improve the estimation of the latent traits by additionally considering response time. In this article, the potential relevance of the response times for psychological assessment is explored for the model of van der Linden (Psychometrika 72:287–308, 2007 ) that seems to have become the standard approach to response time modeling in educational testing. It can be shown that the consideration of response times increases the information of the test. However, one also can prove that the contribution of the response times to the test information is bounded and has a simple limit. Copyright The Psychometric Society 2013 Keywords: item response theory; response time; test information (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:psycho:v:78:y:2013:i:3:p:538-544 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/s11336-013-9324-6 Access Statistics for this article Psychometrika is currently edited by Irini Moustaki More articles in Psychometrika from Springer, The Psychometric Society |
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