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This volume presents a wide ranging handbook to item response theory and its applications to educational and psychological testing it will serve as both an introduction to the subject and also as a comprehensive reference volume for practitioners and researchers it is organized into six major sections the nominal categories model models . Introduction item response theory has become an essential component in the toolkit of every researcher in the behavioral sciences it provides a powerful means to study individual responses to a variety of stimuli and the methodology has been extended and developed to cover many different models of interaction. About this book item response theory has become an essential component in the toolkit of every researcher in the behavioral sciences it provides a powerful means to study individual responses to a variety of stimuli and the methodology has been extended and developed to cover many different models of interaction. 1 review item response theory has become an essential component in the toolkit of every researcher in the behavioral sciences it provides a powerful means to study individual responses to a. Handbook of modern item response theory wim j van der linden and ronald k hambleton new york springer verlag 1997 reviewed by terry ackerman university of illinois psychometricians and measurement experts working in either the private sector or in academia have been waiting for some time for more comprehensive texts on item response theory