Teachers' ability to estimate item difficulty: A test of the assumptions in the Angoff standard setting method

Journal of Educational Measurement

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-81

  Impara, James C ^a   Plake, Barbara S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0032220624     PISSN: 00220655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1998.tb00528.x     Document Type: Article

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