Two prophecy formulas for assessing the reliability of item response theory-based ability estimates

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 361-375

  Raju, Nambury S ^a   Oshima, T C ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical test theory; Item response theory; Reliability; Spearman Brown prophecy formula

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744453649     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164404267289     Document Type: Article

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