Sensitivity of equated aggregate scores to the treatment of misbehaving common items

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 365-369

  Michaelides, Michalis P ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Common item nonequivalent groups design; Delta plot; Equating

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954210762     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621609359626     Document Type: Article

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