Table 2

Summary of Rasch analysis for 5 MEL scales

MEL-15MEL-CMEL-OMEL-SMEL-T
Number of items1512121212
Chi-Square ( ≥ 0.05)0.7180.2890.0660.4810.544
Fit residual SD for items ( ≤ 1.4)0.8530.8550.6670.8900.785
Fit residual SD for persons ( ≤ 1.4)1.8711.6021.4861.4421.924
Misfit items with extreme fit residual values ( ≥ 2.5)00000
PSI ( ≥ 0.8)0.8460.8690.8000.8460.825
Disordered thresholds00000
Local dependency items ( ≥ 0.2)00000
Evidence of DIF00000
T-test (<5% and <1%)4.17% 1.25%2.65% 1.59%6.81% 3.66%4.17% 1.25%6.86% 2.94%
Source(s): Authors’ own work

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