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  • Educational Measurement
  • Psychometrics
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Response time modeling often assumes conditional independence between response time and accuracy, given speed and ability.
  • This assumption may be violated, as item-specific time-accuracy relationships might not be fully explained by overall speed and ability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and validate a new model that explicitly accounts for residual dependence between response time and accuracy.
  • To investigate how item properties change based on response speed in educational tests.

Main Methods:

  • Incorporating residual response time effects into the intercept and slope parameters of Item Response Theory (IRT) models for accuracy.
  • Analyzing an empirical dataset from a low-stakes educational test to demonstrate the model's application.

Main Results:

  • The proposed model successfully identified violations of conditional independence.
  • Item properties demonstrate differential relationships with response time: slower responses correlate with higher accuracy for difficult items but lower accuracy for easier items.
  • Slower responses were found to be less informative for ability estimation as discrimination parameters decreased with residual response time.

Conclusions:

  • The study highlights the importance of modeling residual time-accuracy dependence for a more accurate understanding of item behavior.
  • The findings suggest that response speed is a crucial factor influencing item characteristics and ability estimation in educational assessments.