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  title info:
    title: Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking
    sub title: Methods and Practices
  name:
    name part: Kolen, Michael J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Brennan, Robert L.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: 3rd ed. 2014.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVI, 566 p. 68 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an introduction to test equating, scaling, and linking, including those concepts and practical issues that are critical for developers and all other testing professionals. In addition to statistical procedures, successful equating, scaling, and linking involves many aspects of testing, including procedures to develop tests, to administer and score tests, and to interpret scores earned on tests. 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. 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. 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, scaling, and linking. In addition to the literature covered in previous editions, this new edition presents coverage of significant recent research. In order to assist researchers, advanced graduate students and testing professionals, examples are used frequently, and conceptual issues are stressed. New material includes model determination in log-linear smoothing, in-depth presentation of chained linear and equipercentile equating, equating criteria, test scoring, and a new section on scores for mixed-format tests. In the third edition, each chapter contains a reference list, rather than having a single reference list at the end of the volume The themes of the third edition include: * the purposes of equating, scaling and linking and their practical context * data collection designs * statistical methodology * designing reasonable and us…
  table of contents: Introduction and Concepts -- Observed Score Equating Using the Random Groups Design -- Random Groups Smoothing in Equipercentile Equating -- Nonequivalent Groups Linear Methods -- Nonequivalent Groups Equipercentile Methods -- Item Response Theory Methods -- Standard Errors of Equating -- Practical Issues in Equating -- Score Scales -- Linking -- Appendices -- Answers to Exercises -- Computer Programs -- Index.
  note: by Michael J. Kolen, Robert L. Brennan.
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Assessment
  subject:
    topic: Psychometrics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law
  subject:
    topic: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: Psychometrics
  classification: QA276-280
  classification: 519.5
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
  identifier: 9781493903177
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0317-7
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    record creation date: 140113
    record change date: 20151204151054.0
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