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Peer reviewedBurket, George R. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1987
This response to the Baglin paper (1986) points out the fallacy in inferring that inappropriate scaling procedures cause apparent discrepancies between medians and means and between means calculated using different units. (LMO)
Descriptors: Norm Referenced Tests, Scaling, Scoring, Statistical Distributions
Peer reviewedHuberty, Carl J. – Educational Researcher, 1987
Two approaches of statistical testing are critically reviewed. A new approach, which is a hybrid of the two, is proposed. The new approach requires the researcher to think about the two types of potential inferential errors and an explicit alternative hypothesis of interest. (VM)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Instruction, Multivariate Analysis, Researchers
