433 Pages
by
Routledge
434 Pages
by
Routledge
Test Scoring provides a summary of traditional true score test theory and modern item response theory related to scoring tests, as well as novel developments resulting from the integration of these approaches. The background material introduced in the first four chapters builds a foundation for the new developments covered in later chapters. These new methods offer alternative psychometric... Read more
Contents: Preface. D. Thissen, H. Wainer, Overview of Test Scoring. Part I: Traditional Test Theory and Item Response Theory. H. Wainer, D. Thissen, True Score Theory: The Traditional Method. D. Thissen, M. Orlando, Item Response Theory for Items Scored in Two Categories. D. Thissen, L. Nelson, K. Rosa, L.D. McLeod, Item Response Theory for Items Scored in More Than Two Categories. Part II: Factor Analytic Theory. L.D. McLeod, K.A. Swygert, D. Thissen, Factor Analysis for Items Scored in Two Categories. K.A. Kwygert, L.D. McLeod, D. Thissen, Factor Analysis for Items or Testlets Scored in More Than Two Categories. Part III: Special Problems, Special Solutions (A Section of Applications). K. Rosa, K.A. Swygert, L. Nelson, D. Thissen, Item Response Theory Applied to Combinations of Multiple-Choice and Constructed-Response Items--Scale Scores for Patterns of Summed Scores. D. Thissen, L. Nelson, K.A. Swygert, Item Response Theory Applied to Combinations of Multiple-Choice and Constructed-Response Items--Approximation Methods for Scale Scores. H. Wainer, J.L. Vevea, F. Camacho, B.B. Reeve, III, K. Rosa, L. Nelson, K.A. Swygert, D. Thissen, Augmented Scores--"Borrowing Strength" to Compute Scores Based on Small Numbers of Items.
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David Thissen, Howard Wainer
"[This] comprehensive and careful hardback provides a thorough coverage of traditional and modern approaches to the valid scoring of responses to objective assessment items, both individual and in sets....While the background to the work is the state-wide assessment of learners in the US, it is entirely applicable to the administration of objective assessments in any context, at least where the scale is large enough....Test Scoring pulls no mathematical punches, and we're into matrix algebra and statistical variance manipulation within a couple of dozen pages."
—British Journal of Educational Technology
