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McBee, Matthew T.; Peters, Scott J.; Waterman, Craig – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2014
Best practice in gifted and talented identification procedures involves making decisions on the basis of multiple measures. However, very little research has investigated the impact of different methods of combining multiple measures. This article examines the consequences of the conjunctive ("and"), disjunctive/complementary…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Correlation
Yoes, Michael E.; Ho, Kevin T. – 1991
How two students with the same number-correct score, calculated by dramatically different patterns of responses, can achieve the same ability estimate is demonstrated. The present study investigated the incidence of person misfit to the model in a nationally standardized test of achievement devised using the Rasch item response theory model. It…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)