Unidimensionality also requires that patients with identical ability, but different diagnoses, have the same probability of succeeding any particular item.
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Rasch uses one parameter to estimate person ability (the number of correct responses by a person) and item difficulty (the number of correct responses to an item) to determine the probability of a person n succeeding on an item (Rasch, 1960, pp. 62 125).
The Lion naming item showed a high residual correlation with responses on Date and Month (0.72), which means that a correct response to one of these items is associated with an increased likelihood of succeeding on the other item; this violates one of the rules of Rasch measurement, namely that items must be independent from one another.
Not surprisingly, students performed better on items for which they had succeeded on the corresponding item at pretest than on items for which they had not succeeded on the corresponding item at pretest, z = 4.50, p < .001; including pretest scores in the model significantly improved model fit, χ 2 (1) = 19.43, p < .001.001
The analysis of the mean ability value for persons who chose each option relative to each item confirmed the presence of unexpected responses in some items, where lower ability persons succeeded in responding to higher item difficulty items and higher ability level persons failed to answer to lower item difficulty questions.
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The odds of producing a correct response at posttest were 3.66 times greater, 95% CI [2.08, 6.45], for items for which students had succeeded on the corresponding pretest item than for those on which they had not succeeded on the corresponding pretest item.
