Section Pre-Equating (SPE) is a method used to equate test forms that consist of multiple separately timed sections. SPE does not require examinees to take two complete forms of the test. Instead, all of the old form and one or two sections of the new form are administered to each examinee, and missing data techniques are employed to estimate the…

A necessary prerequisite to the operational use of item response theory (IRT) in any testing program is the investigation of the feasibility of such an approach. This report presents the results of such research for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Despite the fact that GMAT data appear to violate a basic assumption of the…