Test Theory: A Unified Treatment

ISBN-13: 9780805830750 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 498 str.

Roderick P. McDonald; Lynn McDonald

Opis

A text for undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and other fields of social science, this book provides an introduction to the main quantitative concepts, methods and computational techniques needed for the development, evaluation and application of tests.

Spis treści

Contents: 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.

O autorze

Roderick P. McDonald