| Title Page |
| Specification Index |
| Specification Index by Function |
| Output tables - files - plots - graphs |
 | Introduction |
| Introduction |
| The theory behind Facets |
| References |
| Running Facets - Tutorial |
| Launching Facets under Windows |
| Launching at the DOS prompt |
| Facets Window |
| File Box - Right-click |
| Extra Specifications |
| Report Output File |
| Estimation Progess |
| Report Output |
| Output Tables |
| Stopping Facets |
| Menus |
| Edit pull-down menu |
| Estimation pull-down menu |
| Files pull-down menu |
| Font pull-down menu |
| Graphs pull-down menu |
| Help pull-down menu |
| Output Files pull-down menu |
| Output Tables and Plots pull-down menu |
| Edit Initial Settings |
| Quick-action buttons |
| Short-cut keys |
| Examples of Specifications and Data |
| Two-facet dichotomy: The Knox Cube Test |
| Three-facet dichotomy with item bias: The Knox Cube Test |
| Four-facets with item-type interactions: Knox Cube Test |
| Two-facet rating scale: Liking for Science |
| Three-facet rating scale: Creativity (with Excel input data file) |
| Three facets with judge pairs: Language test |
| Four-facet rating scale with bias analysis: Essays |
| Five-facet rating scale with bias analysis: Essays+Days |
| Four-facet rating scale with missing data: Diving |
| Four-facet rating scale with unobserved categories: Olympics |
| Two-facet partial credit/rank order: Sportscasting |
| One-facet paired comparison: League Baseball |
| Paired comparison with ties: Flavor Strength of Gels |
| One-facet fixed effects analysis: Stress at Three Mile Island |
| Arithmetic Test: Measuring, Anchoring and Describing |
| Interactions and Dummy Facets: Diving + Creativity |
| Three-facet Poisson count: Woodcutting |
| Subset reconnection |
| Building Specification and Data files |
| Facets requires specifications and data |
| Specification format for Facets |
| Data references to facets and facet elements |
| Constructing the specification and data files |
| Building the Facets data file |
| Excel for data and specifications |
| Frame of reference |
| Ignoring data values |
| Recoding non-numeric and other data values |
| Modeling facets and elements |
| Facet control characters |
| Examples of model statements |
| Matching data with measurement models |
| SPSS data file |
| STATA data file |
| SAS data file |
| Specifications |
| Anchor output file = |
| Arrangement by Number/Alpha/Measure/Fit/PBS (Asc./Desc.) = N |
| ASCII output table display format = Yes |
| Barcharts output = Yes |
| Batch file processing = Yes |
| Bias (direction: difficulty/ability/omit) = Ability |
| Center facet = |
| Convergence (criteria to end iteration) = .5, .01 |
| CSV output format = " " |
| Data file name = facets.dat |
| Dvalues for data facets = |
| Entry order of facets in data = 1,2,3,4,5,.. |
| Facets in data = 2 |
| Fair averages based on = Mean |
| Graph plotting file name = " "," " |
| Hardware = 80 |
| Heading lines = Yes |
| Inter-rater Agreement Coefficients = 0 |
| Iterations (stop after) = 0 (unlimited) |
| Juxtapose (column headings after every this many lines) = 0 |
| Keep as null element zero = 0 |
| Labels of facets and elements = (required) |
| Left-hand placement of row labels = No |
| Missing data codes = |
| Model to be used in the analysis = ?,?,D,1 |
| Negatively-oriented facet = |
| Noncenter facet = 1 |
| Omit unobserved elements = No |
| Output results/anchors/residuals = |
| Positively-oriented facet = 1 |
| Pt-biserial correlation = Measure |
| QM quotation marks around labels = |
| Query to monitor matching of data to models = No |
| Rating scale (or Response model) = |
| Residuals / Responses Output File = "" |
| Score/Measure Output Files = "","" |
| Simulated data file = "" |
| Standard (error is Asymptotic/Real) = Asymptotic |
| Subset detection = Yes |
| T3onscreen show only one line on screen iteration report = Y |
| T4maximum number of residuals in Table 4 = 100 |
| T8NBC Table 8 Numbers-Barcharts-Curves = NBC |
| Tables output from main analysis = Yes |
| Title for each results table = |
| Total scores reported = Yes |
| Umean (user mean and scale) = 0, 1 |
| Unexpected (standardized residuals reported at least) = 3 |
| Usort sort order of unexpected responses = u |
| Vertical rulers in results file = 1A,2A,3A,4A,.. |
| Whexact standardization = Yes |
| Write iteration details in results file = No |
| Xtreme (score adjustment) = 0.3, 0.5 |
| Yardstick (columns lines low high) = 80,,, |
| Zscore minimum for reported bias terms (bias size/t-statistic) = 0, 0 |
| The Screen Output |
| Processing specifications |
| Reading data |
| Calculating estimates |
| Fit calculation and writing out results |
| Performing Bias/Interaction analysis |
| Completing analysis |
| Tables Output from Main Analysis |
| Table 1 is a summary of your specifications |
| Table 2 is the data summary report |
| Table 3 is the iteration report for the main calibration |
| Table 4 reports Unexpected Responses |
| Table 5 is the measurable data summary |
| Table 6.0 is the All facet summary - "rulers" |
| Table 6.0.0 Disjoint element listing |
| Table 6.2 Graphical description of facet statistics |
| Table 7 Facet measurement report |
| Table 7 Reliability and Chi-square statistics |
| Table 7 Agreement Statistics |
| Table 8.1 Dichotomy, binomial trial and Poisson statistics |
| Table 8.1 Rating scale statistics |
| Table 8 Scale structure bar-chart |
| Table 8 Scale structure probability curves |
| Table 9 is the iteration report for Bias estimation |
| Table 10 lists responses, still unexpected after allowing for bias |
| Table 11 shows how many responses were used to calculate bias estimates |
| Table 12 is the Bias Summary Report |
| Table 13 is the bias calibration report |
| Table 14 is the pairwise bias report |
| Output Tables from menu |
| Table 4 from menu |
| Table 6 from menu |
| Table 7 from menu |
| Table 8 from menu |
| Table 13-14 Excel bias plot |
| Modify output specifications |
| Output Files from menu |
| Anchor output file |
| Graph output file |
| Residuals / Responses Output File |
| Score and measure file output |
| Simulated data file |
| Subset group-anchor file |
| Winsteps control and data file |
| Output Dialog Box |
| Program Messages |
| Check! Warning! and other messages and their explanation |
| Error codes and their explanation |
| Disk file problem |
| Disk space exhausted |
| Estimates do not converge |
| Memory problem |
| No valid matching responses found! |
| Overflow problem |
| Specification or data problem |
| Subscript problem |
| Unexplained program failure |
| Special Topics |
| A starting approach |
| Anchoring rating scale structures |
| ANOVA-like Analysis |
| BASIC program to build Facets data and specification files |
| Bias interaction DIF DPF DRF estimation |
| Connectedness: evaluating and remedying |
| Cut-off points |
| Decimal and continuous data |
| Diagnosing Misfit |
| Dichotomous Misfit Statistics |
| Differential performance on items |
| Dummy facets for interactions |
| Equating tests |
| Estimation considerations |
| Extreme scores for elements |
| Extreme scores for interaction terms |
| Fair average |
| Glossary |
| Group comparisons |
| Instability of Long Links |
| Inter-rater Reliability |
| Investigating differences between rater groups |
| Iterations do not stop |
| Judging Plans and Experimental Designs |
| Measures and calibrations |
| Measuring the elements |
| Mixed rating scale forms and MCQ scoring keys |
| Multiple choice test |
| Nested facet designs: remedying ambiguities |
| Numeration: Ordinal or Keep |
| Omitting elements without editing your data |
| Paired comparisons |
| Polytomous Misfit Statistics |
| Rater misbehavior |
| Rectangular copying |
| Reliability and separation |
| Scoring table construction |
| Size limitations on specifications and data |
| Speeding up slow estimation |
| Unobserved or null categories |