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Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychometrics
  • Educational Research

Background:

  • Diagnostic models (DMs) are crucial for classifying respondents but are limited to binary data.
  • Existing confirmatory ordinal DMs require expert knowledge for structure specification.
  • Ordinal data is prevalent in educational, psychological, and behavioral research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce an exploratory diagnostic model (DM) for ordinal data.
  • To enable the uncovering of latent structures without prior expert knowledge.
  • To broaden the applicability of DMs in social sciences.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an exploratory ordinal DM using a cumulative probit link.
  • Application of Bayesian variable selection techniques for latent structure discovery.
  • Investigation of identifiability conditions for structured multinomial mixture models.

Main Results:

  • Accurate parameter recovery demonstrated in Monte Carlo simulations.
  • Successful application to the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study dataset.
  • Identification of a three-attribute solution with eight classes for teacher and parent ratings.

Conclusions:

  • The developed methodology advances ordinal DMs.
  • Broadens the application of DMs to diverse theoretical and substantive issues.
  • Enhances the analysis of ordinal data in social sciences.