Notes and tutorials

ACER ConQuest is in continual development. The examples from the following Notes and Tutorials might have slight differences when replicated using the latest version of ACER ConQuest.

Manual

ACER ConQuest Manual
Ray Adams, Dan Cloney, Margaret Wu, Alejandra Osses, Alvin Vista. 2020

Notes

Note 1 - Joint Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Ray Adams. 7 June 2010

Note 2 - PairWise Comparisons
Ray Adams. 9 June 2010

Note 3 - Case Fit and Residuals
Ray Adams.  13 June 2010 

Note 4 - Using a discrete population distribution
Ray Adams.  9 July 2010

Note 5 - Item point-biserial discrimination
Luc Le.  13 June 2012

Note 6 - Score Estimation and Generalised Partial Credit Models
Ray Adams and Greg Macaskill.  30 September 2012

Note 7 - Using Mantel-Haenszel Statistics
Xiaoxun Sun. 4 October 2012

Note 8 - Score Estimation and Generalised Partial Credit Models
Greg Macaskill and Ray Adams. 14 June 2016

Tutorials

Rasch model multiple choice test
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu.  22 August 2010
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Rating scale and partial credit models
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu.  22 August 2010
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Rater effects
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu.  22 August 2010
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Hierarchical Modelling
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu. 27 August 2010
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Unidimensional Latent Regression
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu, 29 August 2010
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Differential Item Functioning
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu, 29 August 2010
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Multidimensional Models
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu, 29 August 2010
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Multidimensional Latent Regression
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu, 29 August 2010
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Importing Design Matrices
Ray Adams and Margaret Wu, 29 August 2010
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Modelling multiple choice items with the two-parameter logistic model
Alejandra Osses, 25 July 2015
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Modelling Polytomous Items with the Generalised Partial Credit and Bock Nominal Response Models
Louise Ockwell, 12 August 2015
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The Use of Matrix Variables in Examining DIF
Alejandra Osses and Ray Adams, 19 August 2015
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Modelling Pairwise Comparisons using the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) Model
Alvin Vista, Ray Adams and Dan Cloney, UPDATED: 2020. Original publication 12 October 2015
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Fitting IRTree response models
Nathan Zoanetti, 23 August 2022
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