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PhD Psychology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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According to Wikipedia, David Michael Thissen is an emeritus professor of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina and former President of the Psychometric Society. He is a fellow at the American Statistical Association and the American Psychological Society. He is known for his contributions to item response theory.

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Psychometric Evaluation and Calibration of Health-Related Quality of Life Item Banks: Plans for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) (2007) (1242)
Quick and Easy Implementation of the Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure for Controlling the False Positive Rate in Multiple Comparisons (2002) (634)
Local Dependence Indexes for Item Pairs Using Item Response Theory (1997) (632)
Detection of differential item functioning using the parameters of item response models. (1993) (614)
Likelihood-Based Item-Fit Indices for Dichotomous Item Response Theory Models (2000) (552)
Use of item response theory in the study of group differences in trace lines. (1988) (428)
More information from fewer questions: the factor structure and item properties of the original and brief fear of negative evaluation scale. (2004) (399)
A taxonomy of item response models (1986) (387)
On the relationship between the higher-order factor model and the hierarchical factor model (1999) (383)
Further Investigation of the Performance of S - X2: An Item Fit Index for Use With Dichotomous Item Response Theory Models (2003) (340)
An item response analysis of the pediatric PROMIS anxiety and depressive symptoms scales (2010) (336)
ON THE RELIABILITY OF TESTLET‐BASED TESTS (1991) (323)
Beyond group-mean differences: The concept of item bias. (1986) (289)
A response model for multiple choice items (1984) (269)
PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference Scale: an item response theory analysis of the pediatric pain item bank. (2010) (240)
COMBINING MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE TEST SCORES: TOWARD A MARXIST THEORY OF TEST CONSTRUCTION (1992) (239)
The construct of adaptive behavior: its conceptualization, measurement, and use in the field of intellectual disability. (2012) (214)
Trace Lines for Testlets: A Use of Multiple-Categorical-Response Models. (1989) (205)
Development of six PROMIS pediatrics proxy-report item banks (2012) (194)
Marginal maximum likelihood estimation for the one-parameter logistic model (1982) (191)
Developing tailored instruments: item banking and computerized adaptive assessment (2007) (188)
Item Response Theory for Scores on Tests Including Polytomous Items with Ordered Responses (1995) (173)
How Is Reliability Related to the Quality of Test Scores? What Is the Effect of Local Dependence on Reliability? (1998) (172)
Some standard errors in item response theory (1982) (170)
PROMIS® pediatric self-report scales distinguish subgroups of children within and across six common pediatric chronic health conditions (2015) (166)
Psychometric properties of the PROMIS® pediatric scales: precision, stability, and comparison of different scoring and administration options (2014) (164)
The RWT method for the prediction of adult stature. (1975) (156)
Item Response Theory for Items Scored in Two Categories (2001) (156)
Using effect sizes for research reporting: examples using item response theory to analyze differential item functioning. (2006) (155)
Timed Testing: An Approach Using Item Response Theory (1983) (153)
A parameterization for individual human growth curves. (1973) (152)
Construction of the eight-item patient-reported outcomes measurement information system pediatric physical function scales: built using item response theory. (2011) (147)
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (1998) (139)
Identification of Differential Item Functioning Using Item Response Theory and the Likelihood-Based Model Comparison Approach: Application to the Mini-Mental State Examination (2006) (138)
Sampling plan and patient characteristics of the PROMIS pediatrics large-scale survey (2010) (138)
Uses of Item Response Theory and the Testlet Concept in the Measurement of Psychopathology (1996) (137)
Estimating minimally important difference (MID) in PROMIS pediatric measures using the scale-judgment method (2015) (132)
Limited-information goodness-of-fit testing of item response theory models for sparse 2 tables. (2006) (131)
PROMIS Pediatric Peer Relationships Scale: development of a peer relationships item bank as part of social health measurement. (2013) (126)
Data analysis using item response theory. (1988) (125)
Are Tests Comprising Both Multiple‐Choice and Free‐Response Items Necessarily Less Unidimensional Than Multiple‐Choice Tests?An Analysis of Two Tests (1994) (125)
Statistical Problems of Fitting Individual Growth Curves (1980) (121)
Item Response Theory with Estimation of the Latent Population Distribution Using Spline-Based Densities (2006) (120)
Differential Testlet Functioning: Definitions and Detection (1991) (120)
GRAPHICAL DATA ANALYSIS (1981) (116)
Development and psychometric properties of the PROMIS® pediatric fatigue item banks (2013) (116)
Predicting adult stature for individuals. (1974) (110)
Multiple-Choice Models: The Distractors Are also Part of the Item. (1989) (107)
Using Logistic Approximations of Marginal Trace Lines to Develop Short Assessments (2013) (97)
ON THE RELATIVE VALUE OF MULTIPLE‐CHOICE, CONSTRUCTED‐RESPONSE, AND EXAMINEE‐SELECTED ITEMS ON TWO ACHIEVEMENT TESTS1 (1993) (96)
Hereditary and environmental determinants of growth in height in a longitudinal sample of children and youth of Guatemalan and European ancestry. (1976) (95)
Summed-score linking using item response theory: application to depression measurement. (2000) (95)
PROMIS® Parent Proxy Report Scales: an item response theory analysis of the parent proxy report item banks (2012) (94)
United States Population-Based Estimates of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Symptom and Functional Status Reference Values for Individuals With Cancer. (2017) (92)
The development of automatic word recognition and reading skill (1981) (91)
Factor analysis for items scored in two categories (2000) (90)
Construction of the Pediatric Asthma Impact Scale (PAIS) for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) (2010) (90)
Practical Issues in the Application of Item Response Theory: A Demonstration Using Items From the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) 4.0 Generic Core Scales (2007) (87)
PROMIS Pediatric Anger Scale: an item response theory analysis (2012) (87)
Estimating Ability With the Wrong Model (1987) (86)
Augmented Scores-"Borrowing Strength" to Compute Scores Based on Small Numbers ofltems (2001) (86)
Skeletal Maturity:The Knee Joint As a Biological Indicator (1976) (83)
Three steps towards robust regression (1976) (81)
INFORMATION IN WRONG RESPONSES TO THE RAVEN PROGRESSIVE MATRICES (1976) (78)
Parent-specific adjustments for evaluation of recumbent length and stature of children. (1985) (72)
Item response theory in personality research. (1995) (71)
IRT Estimation of Domain Scores (1997) (71)
Using item response theory to enrich and expand the PROMIS® pediatric self report banks (2014) (71)
A Bayesian Method for the Detection of Item Preknowledge in Computerized Adaptive Testing (2003) (68)
The Nominal Categories Item Response Model (2010) (67)
1 A History and Overview of Psychometrics (2006) (67)
Item response theory for items scored in more than two categories (2000) (66)
Methodological issues for building item banks and computerized adaptive scales (2007) (65)
Item-level informant discrepancies between children and their parents on the PROMIS® pediatric scales (2015) (63)
Reliability and validity of PROMIS measures administered by telephone interview in a longitudinal localized prostate cancer study (2016) (61)
A Two-Decision Model for Responses to Likert-Type Items (2013) (59)
Individual growth in stature: a comparison of four growth studies in the U.S.A. (1976) (59)
An Item Response Theory for Personality and Attitude Scales: Item Analysis Using Restricted Factor Analysis (1983) (59)
The FELS method of assessing the skeletal maturity of the hand‐wrist (1989) (57)
On Examinee Choice in Educational Testing (1994) (53)
A Comparison of Developmental Scales Based on Thurstone Methods and Item Response Theory (1998) (53)
Using the PedsQL™ 3.0 asthma module to obtain scores comparable with those of the PROMIS pediatric asthma impact scale (PAIS) (2011) (53)
Gaining the PROMIS perspective from children with nephrotic syndrome: a Midwest pediatric nephrology consortium study (2013) (51)
Memory for the dimensions of requests (1981) (49)
Item response theory detected differential item functioning between healthy and ill children in quality-of-life measures. (2008) (49)
A Response Model for Multiple Choice Items. Psychometric Technical Report No. 1. (1983) (47)
Promising insights into the health related quality of life for children with severe obesity (2013) (45)
PROMIS® Parent Proxy Report Scales for children ages 5–7 years: an item response theory analysis of differential item functioning across age groups (2014) (44)
Measurement of growth in children with renal insufficiency. (1978) (43)
Assessing responsiveness over time of the PROMIS® pediatric symptom and function measures in cancer, nephrotic syndrome, and sickle cell disease (2017) (42)
Advancing PROMIS’s methodology: results of the Third Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Psychometric Summit (2011) (42)
Item Response Theory (2013) (41)
How Well Can We Compare Scores on Test Forms That Are Constructed by Examinees Choice (1994) (40)
Summed-score linking using item response theory : Application to Depression measurement (2000) (37)
Gaining the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) perspective in chronic kidney disease: a Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium study (2014) (37)
Linkage between the PROMIS® pediatric and adult emotional distress measures (2016) (36)
Identifying Local Dependence With a Score Test Statistic Based on the Bifactor Logistic Model (2012) (32)
Confidence Envelopes for Item Response Theory (1983) (32)
DIFFERENTIAL TESTLET FUNCTIONING DEFINITIONS AND DETECTION (1991) (31)
A Handbook for Data Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences: Statistical Issues (1993) (29)
Psychometric evaluation and design of patient-centered communication measures for cancer care settings. (2017) (27)
Numerical Differentiation Methods for Computing Error Covariance Matrices in Item Response Theory Modeling (2013) (26)
Comparing score tests and other local dependence diagnostics for the graded response model. (2014) (24)
Repealing rules that no longer apply to psychological measurement. (1993) (23)
Projecting to the NAEP Scale: Results from the North Carolina End‐of‐Grade Testing Program (1998) (23)
Mode effects between computer self-administration and telephone interviewer-administration of the PROMIS® pediatric measures, self- and proxy report (2016) (23)
HOW WELL CAN WE EQUATE TEST FORMS THAT ARE CONSTRUCTED BY EXAMINEES?1 (1991) (22)
Factor analysis for items or testlets scored in more than two categories (2000) (22)
On the Viability of Some Untestable Assumptions in Equating Exams that Allow Examinee Choice. (1995) (21)
Using item response theory to disentangle constructs at different levels of generality. (2010) (21)
Three Steps Toward Robust Regression. (1976) (21)
Reliability and measurement precision. (2000) (20)
FITTING ITEM CHARACTERISTIC CURVES WITH SPLINE FUNCTIONS (1984) (20)
Determining a transitional scoring link between PROMIS® pediatric and adult physical health measures (2018) (19)
Development and Standardization of the Diagnostic Adaptive Behavior Scale: Application of Item Response Theory to the Assessment of Adaptive Behavior. (2016) (19)
Estimation of item parameters for the three-parameter logistic model using the marginal likelihood of summed scores (1999) (19)
Nominal Categories Models (2016) (18)
Linking Assessments Based on Aggregate Reporting: Background and Issues (2007) (18)
The diagnostic adaptive behavior scale: evaluating its diagnostic sensitivity and specificity. (2014) (16)
Psychometric engineering as art (2001) (16)
Reputed band attractiveness and sex manipulation in zebra finches. (1982) (16)
Item Response Modeling of Multivariate Count Data With Zero Inflation, Maximum Inflation, and Heaping (2017) (15)
A double logistic comparison of growth patterns of normal children and children with Down's syndrome. (1975) (15)
On the Robustness of a Class of Naive Estimators (1979) (15)
Sexual attitudes and behavior of bulimic women: A preliminary investigation (1990) (15)
How polite?: A reply to Clark and Schunk (1981) (14)
Modern Approaches to Parameter Estimation in Item Response Theory (2014) (13)
Multivariate Semi-Metric Smoothing in Multiple Prediction (1975) (13)
Bad Questions (2016) (12)
When Jackknifing fails (or does it?) (1975) (12)
HOW UNIDIMENSIONAL ARE TESTS COMPRISING BOTH MULTIPLE-CHOICE AND FREE-RESPONSE ITEMS? AN ANALYSIS OF TWO TESTS1 (1993) (12)
Diagnostic Scores Augmented Using Multidimensional Item Response Theory: Preliminary Investigation of MCMC Strategies (2005) (11)
Loglinear Item Response Models, with Applications to Data from Social Surveys (1989) (10)
REVIEW OF COMPUTERIZED ADAPTIVE TESTING: A PRIMER (Second Edition) Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Primer (Second Edition) (2001) (10)
Using the Testlet Response Model as a Shortcut to Multidimensional Item Response Theory Subscore Computation (2013) (9)
Validity Issues Involved in Cross-Grade Statements about NAEP Results. (2012) (9)
Utility and Validity of NAEP Linking Efforts. (2009) (9)
Extending the use of multidimensional irt calibration as projection: Many-to-one linking and linear computation of projected scores (2015) (9)
Determinants of Cognitive Abilities in the Elderly (1983) (8)
Influence-enhanced scatterplots. (1981) (8)
Biorhythms: their utility for predicting postoperative recuperative time, death, and athletic performance. (1980) (8)
Diagnostic Adaptive Behavior Scale (2016) (7)
Modeling and Testing Differential Item Functioning in Unidimensional Binary Item Response Models with a Single Continuous Covariate: A Functional Data Analysis Approach (2016) (7)
Multidimensional Item Response Theory (2018) (6)
The Meaning of Goodness-of-Fit Tests: Commentary on “Goodness-of-Fit Assessment of Item Response Theory Models” (2013) (6)
THE GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF SIMULATION RESULTS WITH APPLICATIONS TO THE COMPARISON OF ROBUST IRT ESTIMATORS OF ABILITY (1984) (6)
Multistage Computerized Adaptive Testing With Uniform Item Exposure (2012) (6)
Similar DIFs: Differential Item Functioning and Factorial Invariance for Scales with Seven (“Plus or Minus Two”) Response Alternatives (2016) (5)
Statistical estimation of skeletal maturity (1989) (5)
Summed-Score Linking Using Item Response Theory (2000) (5)
SOME SUPPORTING EVIDENCE FOR LORD'S GUIDELINE FOR ESTIMATING ‘C’1 (1985) (4)
A Bayesian Method for the Detection of Item Preknowledge in CAT. Law School Admission Council Computerized Testing Report. LSAC Research Report Series. (1999) (4)
On Interpreting the Parameters for any Item Response Model (2009) (4)
Evaluating Differential Item Functioning (DIF) of the Chinese Version of the Behavioral Activation for Depression Scale (C-BADS) (2020) (3)
Improving student understanding and motivation in learning heat transfer by visualizing thermal boundary layers (2018) (3)
XTREE: A Multivariate Graphical Icon Applicable in the Evaluation of Statistical Estimators (1986) (3)
Toward the Measurement and Prediction of Victim Proneness (1983) (3)
Confidence Envelopes for Monotonic Functions: Principles, Derivations, and Examples. (1983) (3)
Two programs for predicting adult stature for individuals. (1976) (2)
A Computer Program for Simulation Evaluation of IRT Ability Estimators. (1984) (2)
Growth through Levels (2015) (2)
Psychometric Properties of the PROMIS® Pediatric Scales (2014) (2)
PROMIS Pediatric Anger Scale (2012) (2)
PLOTTING IN THE MODERN WORLD (1986) (2)
Initial Evaluation of the Pediatric PROMIS Health Domains In Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). (2010) (2)
CHOOSING: A TEST1 (1992) (2)
Psychometrics: Item Response Theory (2015) (2)
Cultural Differences in Environmental Reward Across Individuals in China, Taiwan, and the United States (2019) (2)
What Might Changes in Psychometric Approaches to Statewide Testing Mean for NAEP (2013) (2)
Book Review : Item Response Theory: Application to Psychological Measurement (1984) (2)
Item response theory detects differential item functioning between healthy and ill children in QoL measures (2008) (2)
On Examinee Choice in Educational Testing. GRE Board Professional Report No. 91-17P. (1994) (1)
AAIDD Diagnostic Adaprive Behavior Scale (2010) (0)
Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Pediatric Peer Relationships Scale (2014) (0)
Program of the 76th Annual and 17th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (2011) (0)
PSYCHOMETRIC ENGINEFRING AS ART (2001) (0)
Validation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Parenting: An application of item response theory. (2021) (0)
Failing Tests: Commentary on “Adapting Educational Measurement to the Demands of Test-Based Accountability” (2015) (0)
Book Review : Multivariate Analysis in Beha vioral Research (1978) (0)
Response Latency and Individual Differences: An Integration in a General Latent Trait Model. (1977) (0)
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications edited by Wainer, H., Bradlow, E. T., and Wang, X. (2008) (0)
Choosing: A Test. ETS Program Statistics Research. (1992) (0)
Item Response Theory: Some Standard Errors (1983) (0)
Remembering Lyle V. Jones (1924–2016) (2016) (0)
Confidence Envelopes for Item Response Theory. Technical Report No. 83-38. (1983) (0)
DIMENSION OF REQUESTS (1980) (0)
Modeling and Testing Differential Item Functioning in Unidimensional Binary Item Response Models with a Single Continuous Covariate: A Functional Data Analysis Approach (2015) (0)
The Diagnostic Adaptive Behaviour Scale: A new measure of adaptive behaviour (2008) (0)
XTREE: A MULTIVARIATE GRAPHICAL ICON WITH SPECIAL APPLICABILITY IN MONTE CARLO STUDIES1 (1985) (0)
PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference Scale (2013) (0)
The new test theory. (1987) (0)
Comments on Shelby Haberman's NCME Career Award Address: Statistical Theory and Assessment Practice (2020) (0)
Factor Score Estimation from the Perspective of Item Response Theory (2019) (0)
Cultural Differences in Environmental Reward Across Individuals in China, Taiwan, and the United States (2019) (0)
Measuring significant limitations in adaptive behavior (2014) (0)
Rejoinder to Commentaries by Ackerman, Ho, and Wainer on “Bad Questions” (2016) (0)
conventional item-based reliability estimation methods (S. (1999) (0)
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Aging-Effects of Polymeric Encapsulation on the Mechanical Characteristics of Solar Panels and Embedded Components (2014) (0)
Psychometric Engineering as Art: Variations on a Theme (2003) (0)
DABS: Diagnostic Adaptive Behavior Scale- Standardization Version (2008) (0)
PROJECTION OF RESULTS ON THE NAEP SCALE , USING DATA FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA END-OF-GRADE TESTING PROGRAM (2002) (0)
PROMIS Pediatric Peer Relationships Scale (2013) (0)
Remembering Lyle V. Jones (1924–2016) (2016) (0)
Book Review : Envisioning Information Edward R. Tufte, Cheshire CT: Graphics Press, 1990, 126 pp., approx. $48 (1991) (0)

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