Overview
- Editors:
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Rolf Langeheine
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Institute for Science Education (IPN), University of Kiel, Kiel 1, Federal Republic of Germany
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Jürgen Rost
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Institute for Science Education (IPN), University of Kiel, Kiel 1, Federal Republic of Germany
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction and Overview
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- Rolf Langeheine, Jürgen Rost
Pages 1-7
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Latent Trait Theory
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- Arnold L. van den Wollenberg
Pages 31-50
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- Gerhard Arminger, Ulrich Küsters
Pages 51-73
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Latent Class Theory
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- C. Mitchell Dayton, George B. Macready
Pages 129-143
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Comparative Views of Latent Traits and Latent Classes
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Front Matter
Pages 145-145
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Application Studies
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Front Matter
Pages 231-231
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Back Matter
Pages 309-311
About this book
This volume is based on an international conference held at the Institute for Science Education (IPN) in Kiel in August 1985. The IPN is a national research institute for science education of the Federal Republic of Germany associated with the University of Kiel. The aim of this conference-to treat latent trait and latent class models under comparative points of view as well as under application aspects-was realized in many stimulating contributions and very different ways. We asked the authors of these papers to work out their contributions for publication here, not only because many of the papers present new material, but also because the time is ripe for a comprehen sive volume, working up the widespread literature of the past ten years in this field. We have tried to compile a volume that will be of interest to statistically oriented researchers in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, education, political science, epidemiology, and the like. Although the chapters assume a reasonably high level of methodo logical sophistication, we hope that the book will find its way into advanced courses in the above fields. We are grateful to the IPN for organizing the conference, to our contributors for their untiring efforts in revising their chapters for publication, and to the staff of Plenum Publishing Corporation for helping to make this book a reality.