Test Theory A Unified Treatment

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Contents

This book introduces the reader to the main quantitative concepts, methods, and computational techniques needed for the development, evaluation, and application of tests in the behavioral/social sciences, including educational tests.

• General Introduction.
• Items and Item Scores.
• Item and Test Statistics.
• The Concept of a Scale.
• Reliability Theory for Total Test Scores.
• Test Homogeneity, Reliability, and Generalizability.
• Reliability--Applications.
• Prediction and Multiple Regression.
• The Common Factor Model.
• Validity.
• Classical Item Analysis.
• Item Response Models.
• Properties of Item Response Models.
• Multidimensional Item Response Models.
• Comparing Populations.
• Alternate Forms and the Problem of Equating.
• An Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling.
• Some Scaling Theory.
• Retrospective.
• Appendix: Some Rules for Expected Values.

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