Psychometric Properties of IRT Proficiency Estimates

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 8-14

  Kolen, Michael J ^a   Tong, Ye ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Pearson   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional standard errors of measurement; Item response theory; Proficiency estimates; Psychometric properties; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957107468     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2010.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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