Some statistical and logical considerations when rescoring tests

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 713-728

  Bradlow, Eric T ^a,b   Wainer, Howard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructed responses; Normal linear model; Rater reliability; Rescoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032363967     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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