Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2010
Abstract
Starting with the basic ideas of Latent Structure Analysis formulated by Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Latent Class Analysis as well as Item Response Theory are introduced.
Special feature of these methods is the assumption that persons with specific abilities or specific dispositions answer several items with a given probability correctly or in a specific category. Furthermore, we are going to focus on the methods prospects in comparison to Classical Test Theory and we will exemplify their use at empirical examples.