Building out a measurement model to incorporate complexities of testing in the language domain

Language Testing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 441-462

  Wilson, Mark ^a   Moore, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

descriptive modeling; explanative modeling; item response models; Rasch models

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054065101     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532210394142     Document Type: Article

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