Comparison of Partially Measured Latent Traits across Nominal Subgroups
名义分组间部分测量潜在特质的比较
This article presents a method for estimating the subgroup distributions of a latent trait measured as a normal variate in the population. This problem occurs in large-scale assessments, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the National Adult Literacy Survey, and other programs where proficiencies are estimated via marginal maximum likelihood through a model based on item-response theory. Heretofore, estimates of subgroup means were often estimated using…