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Download full textPommerich, Mary; And Others – 1994
The functioning of two population-based Mantel-Haenszel (MH) common-odds ratios was compared. One ratio is conditioned on the observed test score, while the other is conditioned on a latent trait or true ability score. When the comparison group distributions are incongruent or nonoverlapping to some degree, the observed score represents different…
Descriptors: Ability, Comparative Analysis, Item Bias, Performance
Boldt, R. F.; And Others – 1992
The purpose of this study was to align verbal descriptions of test takers' language performance with distributions of the numerical scores they received on the three sections (Listening Comprehension, Structure and Written Expression, and Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary) of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The descriptors of…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, English (Second Language), Higher Education
