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ERIC Number: EJ1095672
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-1530-5058
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Evaluation of Model Fit in Cognitive Diagnosis Models
Hu, Jinxiang; Miller, M. David; Huggins-Manley, Anne Corinne; Chen, Yi-Hsin
International Journal of Testing, v16 n2 p119-141 2016
Cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) estimate student ability profiles using latent attributes. Model fit to the data needs to be ascertained in order to determine whether inferences from CDMs are valid. This study investigated the usefulness of some popular model fit statistics to detect CDM fit including relative fit indices (AIC, BIC, and CAIC), and absolute fit indices (RMSEA2, "ABS"("fcor") and "MAX"("?[superscript 2][subscript jj']")). These fit indices were assessed under different CDM settings with respect to Q-matrix misspecification and CDM misspecification. Results showed that relative fit indices selected the correct DINA model most of the times and selected the correct G-DINA model well across most conditions. Absolute fit indices rejected the true DINA model if the Q-matrix was misspecified in any way. Absolute fit indices rejected the true G-DINA model whenever the Q-matrix was under-specified. RMSEA2 could be artificially low when the Q-matrix was over-specified.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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