{"title":"Exploring the Effects of Collapsing Rating Scale Categories in Polytomous Item Response Theory Analyses: An Illustration and Simulation Study","authors":"Chia-Lin Tsai, Stefanie Wind, Samantha Estrada","doi":"10.1080/15366367.2023.2288791","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Researchers who work with ordinal rating scales sometimes encounter situations where the scale categories do not function in the intended or expected way. For example, participants’ use of scale ca...","PeriodicalId":46596,"journal":{"name":"Measurement-Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Measurement-Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15366367.2023.2288791","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Researchers who work with ordinal rating scales sometimes encounter situations where the scale categories do not function in the intended or expected way. For example, participants’ use of scale ca...