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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: The Scaling Constant D in Item Response Theory

  AUTHORS: Gregory Camilli

  KEYWORDS: Item Response Theoru, IRT, Scaling Constant, D

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Statistics, Vol.7 No.5, October 13, 2017

  ABSTRACT: In item response theory (IRT), the scaling constant D = 1.7 is used to scale a discrimination coefficient a estimated with the logistic model to the normal metric. Empirical verification is provided that Savalei’s[1] proposed a scaling constant of D = 1.749 based on Kullback-Leibler divergence appears to give the best empirical approximation. However, the understanding of this issue as one of the accuracy of the approximation is incorrect for two reasons. First, scaling does not affect the fit of the logistic model to the data. Second, the best scaling constant to the normal metric varies with item difficulty, and the constant D = 1.749 is best thought of as the average of scaling transformations across items. The reason why the traditional scaling with D = 1.7 is used is simply because it preserves historical interpretation of the metric of item discrimination parameters.