Item Response Theory by Baker

Check out the free book by Baker "Item Response Theory." I think this is the first version of the IRT book by Baker and Kim...

Item Response Theory: Parameter Estimation Techniques, Baker & Kim (2004)

Check out the book "Item Response Theory: Parameter Estimation Techniques, Baker & Kim (2004)" on google book...

http://books.google.com/books?id=y-Q_Q7pasJ0C&printsec=frontcover

Item Response Theory for Psychologists, Embretson & Reise (2000)

Check out the book IRT for Psychologists on google book

http://books.google.com/books?id=rYU7rsi53gQC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0

Chapter 3: Item Response Theory as Model-Based Measurement

This chapter of Embretson & Reise spoke of issues such as the assumption of local independence. In addition, it also talks about ICC or Item Characteristic Curve....

Please see notes for more information...

Chapter 4: Binary IRT Model

This chapter of Embretson & Reise discusses binary IRT models.... please see notes...

Chapter 3 Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Examinee Ability

Since blogger doesn't have the capacity of showing math equations, I am linking this post to the word document I constructed while reading...

Notes