Test equating, scaling, and linking : methods and practices /

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Author / Creator:Kolen, Michael J., author.
Edition:Third edition.
Imprint:New York : Springer, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 566 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Statistics for social science and public policy
Statistics for social science and public policy.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11082666
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Other authors / contributors:Brennan, Robert L., author.
ISBN:9781493903177
1493903179
1493903160
9781493903160
9781306544849
130654484X
9780387400860
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Springerlink, viewed Jan. 22, 2014).
Summary:Test equating methods are used with many standardized tests in education and psychology to ensure that scores from multiple test forms can be used interchangeably. In recent years, researchers from the education, psychology, and statistics communities have contributed to the rapidly growing statistical and psychometric methodologies used in test equating. This book provides an introduction to test equating which both discusses the most frequently used equating methodologies and covers many of the practical issues involved. This second edition expands upon the coverage of the first edition by providing a new chapter on test scaling and a second on test linking. Test scaling is the process of developing score scales that are used when scores on standardized tests are reported. In test linking, scores from two or more tests are related to one another. Linking has received much recent attention, due largely to investigations of linking similarly named tests from different test publishers or tests constructed for different purposes. The expanded coverage in the second edition also includes methodology for using polytomous item response theory in equating.
Other form:Print version: 9781493903160
Standard no.:10.1007/978-1-4939-0317-7