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¹FISPPA Department, University of Padua, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy, deboratn@libero.it.

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Area of Science:

Educational psychology
Cognitive science
Psychometrics

Background:

Knowledge space theory models student knowledge as a set of solvable problems.
Knowledge structures represent collections of these knowledge states.
The basic local independence model (BLIM) is a probabilistic framework for knowledge structures, incorporating lucky guess and careless error probabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and evaluate a method for testing the invariance assumption of the basic local independence model (BLIM).
The invariance assumption posits that lucky guess and careless error probabilities are independent of a student's knowledge state.

Main Methods:

A novel method was developed to detect violations of the invariance assumption in the BLIM.
The method's efficacy was assessed through both simulation studies and an empirical application.

Main Results:

Empirical data indicated potential violations of the BLIM's invariance assumption, even with a good model fit.
The proposed method demonstrated promise in identifying these invariance violations.

Conclusions:

The invariance assumption in the BLIM may not hold true for all datasets.
The developed method offers a valuable tool for diagnosing potential issues with BLIM applications in educational and cognitive research.