Understanding the Response Structure and Process in the Polytomous Rasch Model

Recent discussions with Guanzhong Luo helped in the articulation of the model for this Report. The research reported in this Report was supported in part by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant with the Australian National Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) Performance Measurement and Reporting Task Force; UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) as Industry Partners*. This Report has benefited from the many discussions over the years with many people on the implications of the reversals of Rasch thresholds in polytomous items.

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