Increasing the precision of subscale scores by using out-of-scale information

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 407-426

  Kahraman, Nilufer ^a   Kamata, Akihito ^b,c  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dept of Educ Psychol/Lrng Syst ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Collateral information; Item response theory; Subscale scores

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644242389     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621604268736     Document Type: Article

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