1st Edition

Generalized Kernel Equating with Applications in R

272 Pages 9 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

272 Pages 9 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Generalized Kernel Equating is a comprehensive guide for statisticians, psychometricians, and educational researchers aiming to master test score equating. This book introduces the Generalized Kernel Equating (GKE) framework, providing the necessary tools and methodologies for accurate and fair score comparisons. The book presents test score equating as a statistical problem and covers all... Read more

Foreword

Preface

Part 1: Test Equating and Kernel Equating Overview

1 Introduction

2 Kernel Equating
Part 2: Generalized Kernel Equating Framework

3 Presmoothing

4 Estimating Score Probabilities
5 Continuization

6 Bandwidth Selection

7 Equating

8 Evaluating the Equating Transformation
Part 3: Applications

9 Examples under the EG design
10 Examples under the NEAT design

Part 4: Appendix

A Installing R and Reading in Data
B R packages for GKE

Bibliography

Biography

Marie Wiberg is professor in Statistics with specialty in psychometrics at Umeå University in Sweden. She is the author of more than 60 peer-review research papers and have edited nine books. Her research interests include test equating, large-scale assessments, parametric and nonparametric item response theory and educational measurement and psychometrics in general.

Jorge González is associate professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is author of a book and several publications on test equating. His research is focused on statistical modeling of data arising from the social sciences, particularly on the fields of test theory, educational measurement, and psychometrics.

Alina A. von Davier is the chief of assessment at Duolingo, and the Founder of EdAstra Tech. She has received several awards, including the ATP’s Career Award, the AERA for signification contribution to educational measurement and research methodology award, and the NCME annual award for scientific contributions. Her research is in the field of computational psychometrics, machine learning, assessment, and education.