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TopicTestlet (version 0.1.0)

A Topic Testlet Model for Calibrating Testlet Constructed Responses

Description

Implements the Topic Testlet Model (TTM) as described by Xiong et al. (2025) . The package integrates Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) with the Partial Credit Model to account for local item dependence in testlets using latent topics from student textual responses.

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Install

install.packages('TopicTestlet')

Version

0.1.0

License

GPL (>= 3)

Maintainer

Jiawei Xiong

Last Published

December 1st, 2025

Functions in TopicTestlet (0.1.0)

ttm_lda

Fit LDA and Extract Topic Proportions
ttm_est

Fit the Topic Testlet Model (TTM)
aggregate_responses

Concatenate Student Responses
ttm_perplexity

Calculate Perplexity for Different Topic Numbers