; this is a WINSTEPS specification control file template.
; Save it with your own name, e.g., control.txt

; a semi-colon means a comment: remove semi-colons as needed.

&INST

 TITLE = "Put your page heading here"

;Input Data Format
 NAME1 = 1       ; column of start of person information
NAMLEN = 30      ; maximum length of person information
 ITEM1 = ?       ; column of first item-level response
    NI = ??      ; number of items = test length
 XWIDE = 1       ; number of columns per response
PERSON = Person  ; Persons are called ...
  ITEM = Item    ; Items are called ...

; DATA =         ; data after control specifications

; For rescoring
;       0        1         2         3         4         5         6         7
;       1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
;GROUPS=0        ; specify that each item has its own rating scale (partial credit)
;IREFER=AABBCC....

; Data Scoring
  CODES = "01"    ; valid response codes
;IVALUEA= "01"   ; for rescoring for item type A
;IVALUEB= "10"   ; for rescoring for item type B
;IVALUEC= "  "   ; for rescoring for item type C
;                ; Codes in IREFER with no IVALUE are not changed

CLFILE = *          ; label the categories in Table 3
0 Strongly Disagree ; 0 in the data means "Strongly Disagree"
1 Strongly Agree    ; 1 in the data means "Strongly Agree"
*

;NEWSCORE = "10"    ; use to rescore all items
;    KEY1 =         ; key for MCQ items

; XWIDE = 2   ; for all codes 00 to 99
; CODES = "000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223242526272829+
;         +303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859+
;         +606162636465666768697071727374757677787980818283848586878889+
;         +90919293949596979899"

; codes reversed, in case needed
; NEWSCR= "999897969594939291908988878685848382818079787776757473727170+
;         +696867666564636261605958575655545352515049484746454443424140+
;         +393837363534333231302928272625242322212019181716151413121110+
;         +09080706050403020100"

; MISSING = -1     ; -1 = missing treated as not administered

;User Scaling
UMEAN  = 50             ; item mean - default is 0.00
USCALE = 10             ; measure units - default is 1.00
UDECIM = 1              ; reported decimal places - default is 2
MRANGE = 50             ; half-range on maps - default is 0 (auto-scaled)

&END

;Put item labels here for NI= lines

END LABELS

;Put data here
