mirt (version 1.3)

SAT12: Description of SAT12 data

Description

Data obtained from the TESTFACT (Woods et al., 2003) manual, with 32 response pattern scored items for a grade 12 science assessment test (SAT) measuring topics of chemistry, biology, and physics. The scoring key for these data is [1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 4, 4, 1, 4, 3, 3, 4, 1, 3, 5, 1, 3, 1, 5, 4, 5], respectively. However, careful analysis using the nominal response model suggests that the scoring key for item 32 may be incorrect, and should be changed from 5 to 3.

References

Wood, R., Wilson, D. T., Gibbons, R. D., Schilling, S. G., Muraki, E., & Bock, R. D. (2003). TESTFACT 4 for Windows: Test Scoring, Item Statistics, and Full-information Item Factor Analysis [Computer software]. Lincolnwood, IL: Scientific Software International.

Examples

#score the data (missing scored as 0)
head(SAT12)
data <- key2binary(SAT12,
    key = c(1,4,5,2,3,1,2,1,3,1,2,4,2,1,5,3,4,4,1,4,3,3,4,1,3,5,1,3,1,5,4,5))

#score the data, missing treated as NA
SAT12missing <- SAT12
SAT12missing[SAT12missing == '8'] <- NA
data <- key2binary(SAT12missing,
    key = c(1,4,5,2,3,1,2,1,3,1,2,4,2,1,5,3,4,4,1,4,3,3,4,1,3,5,1,3,1,5,4,5))

#potentially better scoring for item 32
data <- key2binary(SAT12,
    key = c(1,4,5,2,3,1,2,1,3,1,2,4,2,1,5,3,4,4,1,4,3,3,4,1,3,5,1,3,1,5,4,3))