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	Ορθολογικό Μοντέλο Rasch (Μοντέλα Κλίμακας Βαθμολόγησης και Μερικής Πίστωσης)	Θεωρία Απόκρισης Ερωτήσεων (IRT)
Πεδίο	Ψυχομετρία	Ψυχομετρία
Οικογένεια	Latent structure	Latent structure
Έτος προέλευσης	1978–1982	1952–1968
Δημιουργός	David Andrich (RSM, 1978); Geoff Masters (PCM, 1982)	Frederic M. Lord (and Allan Birnbaum for the 2PL/3PL models)
Τύπος	Item response model for ordered categories	Probabilistic measurement model
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Andrich, D. (1978). A rating formulation for ordered response categories. Psychometrika, 43(4), 561–573.	Lord, F. M. & Novick, M. R. (1968). Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores. Addison-Wesley.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Rating Scale Model, Partial Credit Model, RSM, PCM	IRT, latent trait theory, item characteristic curve theory, modern test theory
Συναφείς	6	5
Σύνοψη	The ordinal Rasch model extends the dichotomous Rasch framework to items with ordered response categories such as Likert-type scales. It places both persons and items on a shared interval-level metric, enabling principled measurement from ordinal data while checking whether items function consistently across all response thresholds.	Item response theory models the probability that a respondent answers an item correctly (or endorses it) as a function of the respondent's latent trait level and the item's own statistical properties — difficulty, discrimination, and guessing. Unlike classical test theory, IRT places persons and items on the same scale, yielding measurement that is sample-independent for items and test-independent for persons.