Test equating, scaling, and linking

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Test equating, scaling, and linking

methods and practices

Third Edition
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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 useful equating, scaling, and linking studies * importance of test development and quality control processes to equating * equating error, and the underlying statistical assumptions for equating

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Springer
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English
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Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking: Methods and Practices
2014, Springer London, Limited
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Test equating, scaling, and linking: methods and practices
2014, Springer
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Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking: Methods and Practices
2013, Springer
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Cover of: Test equating, scaling, and linking
Test equating, scaling, and linking: methods and practices
2010, Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: Test equating, scaling, and linking
Test equating, scaling, and linking: methods and practices
2004, Springer, Springer Science+Business Media
in English - 2nd ed.

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Include bibliographical references and index.

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New York
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Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Statistics for social and behavioral sciences

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Dewey Decimal Class
519.5
Library of Congress
LB3060.77 .K65 2014, QA276-280LC5225.A75L, QA276-280

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xxvi, 566 pages
Number of pages
566

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OL31015576M
ISBN 10
1493903160
ISBN 13
9781493903160
LCCN
2013956631
OCLC/WorldCat
865495665

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OL3745959W

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"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."--Publisher's description.

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