IRT studies of many groups: the alignment method

Asparouhov and Muthén (2014) presented a new method for multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), referred to as the alignment method. The alignment method can be used to estimate group-specific factor means and variances without requiring exact measurement invariance. A strength of the method is the ability to conveniently estimate models for many groups, such as with comparisons of countries. This paper focuses on IRT applications of the alignment method. An empirical investigation is made of binary knowledge items administered in two separate surveys of a set of countries. A Monte Carlo study is presented that shows how the quality of the alignment can be assessed.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Frontiers in Psychology

• Publication date

  2014-09-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Economics, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00978PMID 25309470PMCID 4162377
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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