Obtaining a common scale for item response theory item parameters using separate versus concurrent estimation in the common-item equating design

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-24

  Hanson, Bradley A ^a   Beguin, Anton A ^b  

^a CTB MCGRAW HILL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Concurrent calibration; Equating; Item parameter estimation; Item response theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036106950     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621602026001001     Document Type: Article

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