Testing, Measurement & Assessment
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Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation
Current Applications and New Directions
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing,...
Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
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Frontiers of Test Validity Theory
Measurement, Causation, and Meaning
Series: Multivariate Applications Series
This book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning. Psychometric and philosophical perspectives receive attention along with unresolved issues. The authors explore how measurement is...
Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
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Handbook of Test Security
High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...
Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
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Invariant Measurement
Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Rasch models are used throughout but a comparison...
Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Measurement With Persons
Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas
Series: Scientific Psychology Series
Measurements with persons are those in which human perception and interpretation are used for measuring complex, holistic quantities and qualities, which are perceived by the human brain and mind. Providing means for reproducible measurement of parameters such as pleasure and pain has important...
Published December 18th 2011 by Psychology Press
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Statistical Approaches to Measurement Invariance
This book reviews the statistical procedures used to detect measurement bias. Measurement bias is examined from a general latent variable perspective so as to accommodate different forms of testing in a variety of contexts including cognitive or clinical variables, attitudes, personality dimensions...
Published April 11th 2011 by Routledge
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Introduction to Psychometric Theory
This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades. The book introduces psychometric theory using a latent variable modeling (LVM) framework and emphasizes...
Published September 21st 2010 by Routledge
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Handbook of Polytomous Item Response Theory Models
This comprehensive Handbook focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. These models help us understand the interaction between examinees and test questions where the questions have various response categories. The book reviews all of the major models and includes...
Published April 5th 2010 by Routledge
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Applying Generalizability Theory using EduG
Series: Quantitative Methodology Series
Intended to help improve measurement and data collection methods in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences, this book demonstrates an expanded and accessible use of Generalizability Theory (G theory). G theory conceptually models the way in which the reliability of measurement is ascertained....
Published October 27th 2009 by Routledge
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Cognitive Assessment
An Introduction to the Rule Space Method
Series: Multivariate Applications Series
This book introduces a new methodology for the analysis of test results. Free from ambiguous interpretations, the results truly demonstrate an individual’s progress. The methodology is ideal for highlighting patterns derived from test scores used in evaluating progress. Dr. Tatsuoka introduces...
Published May 21st 2009 by Routledge
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Modern Psychometrics, Third Edition
The Science of Psychological Assessment
Today psychometrics plays an increasingly important role in all our lives as testing and assessment occurs from preschool until retirement. This book introduces the reader to the subject in all its aspects, ranging from its early history, school examinations, how to construct your own test,...
Published December 2nd 2008 by Routledge
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Applying the Rasch Model
Fundamental Measurement in the Human Sciences, Second Edition
Written in an accessible style, this book facilitates a deep understanding of the Rasch model. Authors Bond and Fox review the crucial properties of the Rasch model and demonstrate its use with a wide range of examples including the measurement of educational achievement, human development,...
Published April 1st 2007 by Routledge
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A Paul Meehl Reader
Essays on the Practice of Scientific Psychology
Series: Multivariate Applications Series
This new book introduces a new generation to the important insights of Paul Meehl. In addition to selected papers from the classic reader, Psychodiagnosis, this book features new material selected from Meehl's most influential writings. The resulting collection is a tour de force illustrating...
Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge
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Constructing Measures
An Item Response Modeling Approach
Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones. The book is organized around the steps taken while constructing an instrument....
Published October 13th 2004 by Routledge
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Item Response Theory
Series: Multivariate Applications Series
This book develops an intuitive understanding of IRT principles through the use of graphical displays and analogies to familiar psychological principles. It surveys contemporary IRT models, estimation methods, and computer programs. Polytomous IRT models are given central coverage since many...
Published April 30th 2000 by Psychology Press
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Measurement, Design, and Analysis
An Integrated Approach
In textbooks and courses in statistics, substantive and measurement issues are rarely, if at all, considered. Similarly, textbooks and courses in measurement virtually ignore design and analytic questions, and research design textbooks and courses pay little attention to analytic and measurement...
Published April 30th 1991 by Psychology Press