Test equating: What, why, how?

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-23

  Zhu, Weimo ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linking; Measurement and evaluation; Scaling; Test theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0032015331     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.1998.10607662     Document Type: Article

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