Estimating three- and four-parameter MIRT models with importance-weighted sampling enhanced variational auto-encoder

Multidimensional Item Response Theory (MIRT) is widely used in educational and psychological assessment and evaluation. With the increasing size of modern assessment data, many existing estimation methods become computationally demanding and hence they are not scalable to big data, especially for th...

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Main Authors: Tianci Liu, Chun Wang, Gongjun Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935419/full