Psychometric properties of raw and scale scores on mixed-format tests

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 15-24

  Kolen, Michael J ^a   Lee, Won Chan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional standard error of measurement; Equating; Item response theory; Mixed format test; Reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959333263     PISSN: 07311745     EISSN: 17453992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3992.2011.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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