Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Πολύτομο Μοντέλο Rasch	Έλεγχος Αναλλοιότητας Μετρήσεων
Πεδίο	Ψυχομετρία	Ψυχομετρία
Οικογένεια	Latent structure	Latent structure
Έτος προέλευσης	1978–1982	2000
Δημιουργός	Gerhard N. Masters (Partial Credit Model); David Andrich (Rating Scale Model)	Vandenberg & Lance
Τύπος	Item response model	Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis procedure
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Masters, G. N. (1982). A Rasch model for partial credit scoring. Psychometrika, 47(2), 149–174.	Vandenberg, R. J., & Lance, C. E. (2000). A review and synthesis of the measurement invariance literature. Organizational Research Methods, 3(1), 4–70.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	PRM, Rating Scale Model, Partial Credit Model, Polytomous IRT Rasch	Factorial Invariance, Measurement Equivalence, Configural-Metric-Scalar Testing, Ölçüm Değişmezliği
Συναφείς	6	3
Σύνοψη	The Polytomous Rasch Model extends the dichotomous Rasch framework to ordered response scales with three or more categories, such as Likert items or partial-credit tasks. It estimates person ability and item difficulty on the same interval-level logit scale, and it tests whether the response categories function as intended — prerequisites for rigorous ordinal measurement.	Measurement invariance testing is a sequence of nested confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models that examines whether a psychological scale measures the same latent construct in the same way across distinct groups or time points. Systematized and popularized by Vandenberg and Lance (2000), the procedure tests a hierarchy of constraints — from identical factor patterns to identical item intercepts — so that researchers can justify meaningful group comparisons on latent means.