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Peer-reviewed journal articles and open-source software by Jiayi Deng.

Journal articles

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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2026 · Educational Assessment

Optimizing measurement precision and diagnosticity for a two-dimensional assessment of reading comprehension

Biancarosa, G., Kennedy, P. C., Lee, S. B., DeWeese, J. N., Wong, Y. L., Deng, J., Weiss, D. J., & Davison, M. L. (2026).

Educational Assessment, 1-20.

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2025 · Large-scale Assessments in Education

Linking errors introduced by rapid guessing responses when employing multigroup concurrent IRT scaling

Deng, J. (2025).

Large-scale Assessments in Education, 13(1), Article 28.

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2025 · Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Digital Module 37: Introduction to item response tree (IRTree) models

Kim, N., Deng, J., & Wong, Y. L. (2025).

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 44(1), 109-110.

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2025 · Educational and Psychological Measurement

Is effort-moderated scoring robust to multidimensional rapid guessing?

Rios, J. A., & Deng, J. (2025).

Educational and Psychological Measurement, 85(1), 134-155. Online first 2024.

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2024 · Applied Psychological Measurement

aberrance: An R package for detecting aberrant behavior in test data

Gorney, K., & Deng, J. (2024).

Applied Psychological Measurement, 48(4-5), 230-231.

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2024 · Educational and Psychological Measurement

A comparison of response time threshold scoring procedures in mitigating bias from rapid guessing behavior

Rios, J. A., & Deng, J. (2024).

Educational and Psychological Measurement, 84(2), 387-420. Online first 2023.

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2022 · Educational Assessment

To what degree does rapid guessing distort aggregated test scores? A meta-analytic investigation

Rios, J. A., Deng, J., & Ihlenfeldt, S. D. (2022).

Educational Assessment, 27(4), 356-373.

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2022 · Applied Psychological Measurement

Investigating the effect of differential rapid guessing on population invariance in equating

Deng, J., & Rios, J. A. (2022).

Applied Psychological Measurement, 46(7), 589-604.

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2022 · Applied Psychological Measurement

Quantifying the distorting effect of rapid guessing on estimates of coefficient alpha

Rios, J. A., & Deng, J. (2022).

Applied Psychological Measurement, 46(1), 40-52. Online first 2021.

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2021 · Large-scale Assessments in Education

Does the choice of response time threshold procedure substantially affect inferences concerning the identification and exclusion of rapid guessing responses? A meta-analysis

Rios, J. A., & Deng, J. (2021).

Large-scale Assessments in Education, 9(1), Article 18.

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2019 · ECNU Review of Education

Side effects of large-scale assessments in education

Emler, T. E., Zhao, Y., Deng, J., Yin, D., & Wang, Y. (2019).

ECNU Review of Education, 2(3), 279-296.

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Software

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Open-source software · 2025

aberrance: Detect aberrant behavior in test data

An R package for detecting several forms of aberrant behavior in test data, including answer copying, response similarity, change points, misfit, preknowledge, rapid guessing, and test tampering.

Gorney, K., & Deng, J. (2025).

aberrance 0.3.0. Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).

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