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item response theory  

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  • Item response theory (IRT) is an approach used for survey development, evaluation, and scoring. IRT models describe the relationship between a person's response to a survey question and his or her standing on a latent (i.e. [Source: Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods; Item Response Theory]

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