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Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking Hardback - - 3rd Edition
by Michael J. Kolen Robert L. Brennan
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- Title Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking
- Author Michael J. Kolen Robert L. Brennan
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 3rd
- Edition 3
- Condition New
- Pages 566
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Publication date pp. 594
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6105012607
- ISBN 9781493903160 / 1493903160
- Weight 2.21 lbs (1.00 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.25 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 3.18 cm)
- Category Sociology
- Dewey Decimal Code 150.151
- Quantity available 4
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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
