The measurement practice section illustrates the application of objective measurement methods to personality psychology, a sociological study of school environment, personnel management, pain research, motor performance, and curriculum development. It emphasizes practice over theory, showing how measurement practice contributes valuable perspectives on substantive theory. The measurement theory section describes the development of new measurement models that extend objective measurement into learning contexts, rank-ordered data, and multidimensional profiles composed of subtests. These are complemented by a study of the use of objective measurement to examine the construct validity of items, and an exploration of the impact of text anxiety and item order on measurements. The final section examines recent developments in mathematical programming techniques applied to test assembly, parameter estimation and generalizability theory.
By:
Mark R. Wilson
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 226mm,
Width: 150mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780893918149
ISBN 10: 0893918148
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 01 January 1992
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Objective Measurement: The State of the Art The International Objective Measurement Workshops: Past and Future Objectivity in Measurement: A Philosophical History of Rasch's Separability Theorem MEASUREMENT PRACTICE Using Rasch Procedures to Understand Psychometric Structure in Measures of Personality Measuring Changes in the Quality of School Life. Distinguishing Between Shared and Unique Employee Needs Partial-Credit Modeling and Response Surface Modeling of Biobehavioral Data Polytomous Rasch Models for Behavioral Assessments: The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance Vertically Equating Reading Tests: An Example from Chicago Public Schools MEASUREMENT THEORY Components of Difficulty in Spatial Ability Test Items Test Anxiety and Item Order: New Concerns for Item Response Theory Objective Measurement of Rank-Ordered Objects Conjunctive Measurement Theory: Cognitive Research Projects A Rasch Model with a Multivariate Distribution of Ability MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS TO MEASUREMENT Computerized Test Construction Optimality of Sampling Designs in Item Response Theory Models Constraint Optimization: A Perspective of IRT Parameter Estimation The Optimization of Decision Studies Simultaneous Optimization of the Aptitude Treatment Interaction Decision Problem with Mastery Scores Appendix: Fifth International Objective Measurement Workshop University of California, Berkeley, March 25-26,1989 Author Index Subject Index
MARK WILSON is Professor of Education at the University of Californai at Berkeley, specializing in the areas of educational assessment, educational evaluation and applied statistics. He has published 28 articles in refereed journals, edited four books, contributed 23 chapters to edited books, and made many presentations at meetings of professional groups.
