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  • Psychometrics
  • Educational Measurement
  • Latent Variable Modeling

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  • Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are essential for understanding examinee attribute mastery.
  • Attribute hierarchy is a key structural feature within CDMs, offering critical insights.
  • Existing likelihood ratio (LR) tests for attribute hierarchies face challenges with non-standard asymptotic distributions, leading to test failures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate the Wald statistic as a novel method for statistically testing a priori defined attribute hierarchies in CDMs.
  • To compare the performance of two Wald statistic variants, Wald-XPD and Wald-Obs, using different covariance matrix estimators.

Main Methods:

  • The study introduces the Wald statistic for attribute hierarchy testing in CDMs.
  • Two covariance matrix estimators, empirical cross-product (XPD) and observed information (Obs), are utilized.
  • Simulation studies were conducted to assess the performance of Wald-XPD and Wald-Obs under various conditions.

Main Results:

  • The Wald-XPD statistic demonstrated acceptable empirical performance across different item qualities.
  • Wald-XPD exhibited higher test efficiency compared to other methods.
  • The proposed methods were illustrated using real-world datasets.

Conclusions:

  • The Wald statistic, particularly Wald-XPD, provides a viable and efficient alternative for validating attribute hierarchies in CDMs.
  • This approach addresses limitations of existing LR tests, offering improved reliability in attribute hierarchy assessment.
  • The findings support the utility of the Wald-XPD method in educational and psychological measurement contexts.