Methods in scaling the basic competence test

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 907-929

  Chang, Shun Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arcsine transformation; BCTEST; Linear transformation; Normalizing transformation; Scale score

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750743713     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164405285904     Document Type: Article

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