<em>Competences of graduates by Rasch analysis</em> (by Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti, Silvia Biffignandi, Valeria Caviezel). Objectives In this study we apply the Rasch analysis to evaluate the competences of graduates in their job (required and effective competences). The database comes from a study of...

The paper proves that the maximum likelihood estimates of item and person parameters of the Rasch model preserve the order of item and person total scores. The result is valid for conditional and unconditional maximum likelihood estimation.