For the six available sets of empirical data, the discrimination (slope) parameter of the logistic item characteristic curve was found to have a signifmant positive correlation over items with the difficulty (location) parameter. This unpleasant situation can be eliminated by a suitably chosen transformation of the ability scale. An example of the transformation is given and some empirical results of using the transformed scale are shown.


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