dexter-package: Dexter: data analyses for educational and psychological...

In dexter: Data Management and Analysis of Tests

Dexter: data analyses for educational and psychological tests.

Description

Dexter provides a comprehensive solution for managing and analyzing educational test data.

Details

The main features are:

• project databases providing a structure for storing data about persons, items, responses and booklets.

• methods to assess data quality using Classical test theory and plots.

• CML calibration of the extended nominal response model and interaction model.

To learn more about dexter, start with the vignettes: 'browseVignettes(package="dexter")'

Dexter uses the following global options

• dexter.use_tibble return tibbles instead of data.frames, defaults to FALSE

• dexter.verbose if FALSE, turn off all informative messages, defaults to TRUE

• dexter.progress show progress bars, defaults to TRUE in interactive sessions

• dexter.max_cores set a maximum number of cores that dexter will use, defaults to the minimum of Sys.getenv("OMP_THREAD_LIMIT") and getOption("Ncpus"), otherwise unlimited.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Jesse Koops [e-mail]

Authors:

• Jesse Koops [e-mail]

• Gunter Maris

• Timo Bechger

• Ivailo Partchev

See Also

Useful links:

• https://dexter-psychometrics.github.io/dexter/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/dexter-psychometrics/dexter/issues

dexter documentation built on July 24, 2026, 5:06 p.m.