Psychological Methods
Social and Behavioural Sciences
University of Amsterdam
On November 18th 2021, Joost Kruis has defended his thesis Item response mechanics at the University of Amsterdam.
Summary
Statistical models for the relations between variables encompass assumptions about the underlying mechanism that generated the relations in the observed data. This dissertation introduces item response mechanics as the study of data-generating mechanisms underlying an item response, and their implementation in psychometric process-measurement models.
Supervisors
Prof. Han L. J. van der Maas, Prof. Gunter K.J. Maris & Dr Dylan Molenaar
Financed by
NWO-Graduate Programme IOPS
Project period
1 September 2016 – 18 November 2021