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Bichi, Ado Abdu; Talib, Rohaya – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
Testing in educational system perform a number of functions, the results from a test can be used to make a number of decisions in education. It is therefore well accepted in the education literature that, testing is an important element of education. To effectively utilize the tests in educational policies and quality assurance its validity and…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Test Construction, Decision Making
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Culpepper, Steven Andrew – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2013
A classic topic in the fields of psychometrics and measurement has been the impact of the number of scale categories on test score reliability. This study builds on previous research by further articulating the relationship between item response theory (IRT) and classical test theory (CTT). Equations are presented for comparing the reliability and…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Reliability, Scores, Error of Measurement
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Fan, Xitao; Sun, Shaojing – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
In adolescence research, the treatment of measurement reliability is often fragmented, and it is not always clear how different reliability coefficients are related. We show that generalizability theory (G-theory) is a comprehensive framework of measurement reliability, encompassing all other reliability methods (e.g., Pearson "r,"…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Measurement, Reliability, Correlation
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Parker, Richard I.; Vannest, Kimberly J.; Davis, John L.; Clemens, Nathan H. – Journal of Special Education, 2012
Within a response to intervention model, educators increasingly use progress monitoring (PM) to support medium- to high-stakes decisions for individual students. For PM to serve these more demanding decisions requires more careful consideration of measurement error. That error should be calculated within a fixed linear regression model rather than…
Descriptors: Measurement, Computation, Response to Intervention, Regression (Statistics)
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van der Linden, Wim J. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2010
The traditional way of equating the scores on a new test form X to those on an old form Y is equipercentile equating for a population of examinees. Because the population is likely to change between the two administrations, a popular approach is to equate for a "synthetic population." The authors of the articles in this issue of the…
Descriptors: Test Format, Equated Scores, Population Distribution, Population Trends
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DeMars, Christine E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
The graded response (GR) and generalized partial credit (GPC) models do not imply that examinees ordered by raw observed score will necessarily be ordered on the expected value of the latent trait (OEL). Factors were manipulated to assess whether increased violations of OEL also produced increased Type I error rates in differential item…
Descriptors: Test Items, Raw Scores, Test Theory, Error of Measurement
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Solano-Flores, Guillermo; Backhoff, Eduardo; Contreras-Nino, Luis Angel – International Journal of Testing, 2009
In this article, we present a theory of test translation whose intent is to provide the conceptual foundation for effective, systematic work in the process of test translation and test translation review. According to the theory, translation error is multidimensional; it is not simply the consequence of defective translation but an inevitable fact…
Descriptors: Test Items, Investigations, Semantics, Translation
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Raju, Nambury S.; Price, Larry R.; Oshima, T. C.; Nering, Michael L. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2007
An examinee-level (or conditional) reliability is proposed for use in both classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT). The well-known group-level reliability is shown to be the average of conditional reliabilities of examinees in a group or a population. This relationship is similar to the known relationship between the square of…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Error of Measurement, Reliability, Test Theory
Schumacker, Randall E. – 1998
In comparing measurement theories, it is evident that the awareness of the concept of measurement error during the time of Galileo has lead to the formulation of observed scores comprising a true score and error (classical theory), universe score and various random error components (generalizability theory), or individual latent ability and error…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Error of Measurement, Generalizability Theory
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McDonald, Roderick P. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2003
The concept of a behavior domain is a reasonable and essential foundation for psychometric work based on true score theory, the linear model of common factor analysis, and the nonlinear models of item response theory. Investigators applying these models to test data generally treat the true scores or factors or traits as abstractive psychological…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Error of Measurement, True Scores, Psychometrics