Why Sum Scores May Not Tell Us All About Test Takers

Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-36

  von Davier, Matthias ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary statistical models; Response analysis; Scoring; Test data analysis; Test takers

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549094410     PISSN: 15273369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.nainr.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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