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  • Psychometrics
  • Educational Measurement
  • Statistical Analysis

Background:

  • Dimensionality assessment is crucial for test validation.
  • Existing methods often focus on dichotomous items, neglecting polytomous ones.
  • Poly-NEWDIM is a polytomous adaptation of DIMTEST for dimensionality assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate new procedures for selecting assessment (AT) and partitioning (PT) subtests for Poly-NEWDIM.
  • To compare the performance of novel AT-selection methods against existing ones.
  • To assess the sensitivity of these methods to various data characteristics.

Main Methods:

  • Development of two new AT-selection procedures: HCA/CCPROX-PolyDIMTEST (HCP) and HCA/CCPROX-PolyNEWDIM (HCN).
  • Comparison of HCP and HCN with a previous method (HCD) using simulation studies.
  • Evaluation of performance based on statistical power and sensitivity to sample size, correlation, and structural complexity.

Main Results:

  • HCP and HCN demonstrated superior power compared to the HCD method.
  • HCN exhibited lower sensitivity to sample size, correlation, and structural complexity than HCP.
  • Optimal data proportions for AT selection were identified: 70% for most cases with large samples, and 50% for polytomous/mixed tests with small samples.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed AT-selection procedures, particularly HCN, offer improved power and robustness for dimensionality assessment in polytomous tests.
  • These findings provide practical guidelines for data partitioning in AT selection for Poly-NEWDIM.
  • The study advances methods for analyzing complex item formats in large-scale educational assessments.