11 Quantitative Survey Item Review

DOI: 10.4324/9780429273926-13

Similar to our discussion of qualitative item review methods in Chapter 10, here quantitative item review methods and how the data from each review method can contribute to item improvement and address our hypothesis regarding whether respondents interpret the item in the manner intended are described. This chapter provides a complement to the previous chapter with a focus on item review methods that yield quantitative indices. Ex ante, individual- (behavior coding, paradata, response latency) and group-based (item analysis) item review methods as well as approaches to review poorly functioning responses from persons (via classical test theory and item response theory analysis) ...

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