השוואת שיטות

	מודל ראָש הפוליטומי	בדיקת השוואת מבחנים (Measurement Invariance Testing)
תחום	פסיכומטריה	פסיכומטריה
משפחה	Latent structure	Latent structure
שנת המקור	1978–1982	2000
הוגה השיטה	Gerhard N. Masters (Partial Credit Model); David Andrich (Rating Scale Model)	Vandenberg & Lance
סוג	Item response model	Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis procedure
מקור מכונן	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.
כינויים	PRM, Rating Scale Model, Partial Credit Model, Polytomous IRT Rasch	Factorial Invariance, Measurement Equivalence, Configural-Metric-Scalar Testing, Ölçüm Değişmezliği
קשורות	6	3
תקציר	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.