The Impact of Multidimensionality on Extraction of Latent Classes in Mixture Rasch Models. Issue 3 (2nd September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jang, Yoonsun; Kim, Seock‐Ho; Cohen, Allan S.
• Is Part Of: Journal of educational measurement. Volume 55:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 403
• Page End: 420
• Publication Date: 2018-09-02
• Subjects: Educational tests and measurements -- Periodicals; 371.2605
• DOI: 10.1111/jedm.12185
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-0655

Abstract

Abstract: This study investigates the effect of multidimensionality on extraction of latent classes in mixture Rasch models. In this study, two‐dimensional data were generated under varying conditions. The two‐dimensional data sets were analyzed with one‐ to five‐class mixture Rasch models. Results of the simulation study indicate the mixture Rasch model tended to extract more latent classes than the number of dimensions simulated, particularly when the multidimensional structure of the data was more complex. In addition, the number of extracted latent classes decreased as the dimensions were more highly correlated regardless of multidimensional structure. An analysis of the empirical multidimensional data also shows that the number of latent classes extracted by the mixture Rasch model is larger than the number of dimensions measured by the test.