The incorporation of empirical item difficulty data into the Angoff standard-setting procedure

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 479-498

  Taube, Kurt T ^a  

^a American Association of State Social Work Boards   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPETENCE; LICENSING; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; LICENSURE; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030698090     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016327879702000406     Document Type: Article

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