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Nandakumar, Ratna; Yu, Feng – 1994
DIMTEST is a statistical test procedure for assessing essential unidimensionality of binary test item responses. The test statistic T used for testing the null hypothesis of essential unidimensionality is a nonparametric statistic. That is, there is no particular parametric distribution assumed for the underlying ability distribution or for the…
Descriptors: Ability, Content Validity, Correlation, Nonparametric Statistics
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Embretson, Susan E. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2004
The last century was marked by dazzling changes in many areas, such as technology and communications. Predictions into the second century of testing are seemingly difficult in such a context. Yet, looking back to the turn of the last century, Kirkpatrick (1900), in his American Psychological Association presidential address, presented fundamental…
Descriptors: Ability, Testing, Futures (of Society), Psychometrics