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Comparing the Incomparable: An Essay on the Importance of Big Assumptions and Scant Evidence.

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Wainer, Howard – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1999

Discusses the comparison of groups of individuals who were administered different forms of a test. Focuses on the situation in which there is little overlap in content between the test forms. Reviews equating problems in national tests in Canada and Israel. (SLD)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores, Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests

Using the Circular Equating Paradigm for Comparison of Linear Equating Models.

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Gafni, Naomi; Melamed, Estela – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1990

Equating error was estimated using the same test with three linear equating methods in three paradigms--single-link equating; circular equating through a chain; and pseudo-circular equating, in which a test is equated to itself through equating chains. Over 31,000 Psychometric Entrance Test scores of college applicants in Israel were analyzed.…

Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis