Measurement, sampling, and equating errors in large-scale assessments

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 15-27

  Wu, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equating error; Large scale assessments; Measurement error; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650050217     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2010.00190.x     Document Type: Article

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