Objective Measurement: Theory Into Practice, Volume 1 (Paperback)

Preface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Objective Measurement: The State of the Art The International Objective Measurement Workshops: Past and Future Objectivity in Measurement: A Philosophical History of Rasch's Separability Theorem MEASUREMENT PRACTICE Using Rasch Procedures to Understand Psychometric Structure in Measures of Personality Measuring Changes in the Quality of School Life. Distinguishing Between Shared and Unique Employee Needs Partial-Credit Modeling and Response Surface Modeling of Biobehavioral Data Polytomous Rasch Models for Behavioral Assessments: The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance Vertically Equating Reading Tests: An Example from Chicago Public Schools MEASUREMENT THEORY Components of Difficulty in Spatial Ability Test Items Test Anxiety and Item Order: New Concerns for Item Response Theory Objective Measurement of Rank-Ordered Objects Conjunctive Measurement Theory: Cognitive Research Projects A Rasch Model with a Multivariate Distribution of Ability MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS TO MEASUREMENT Computerized Test Construction Optimality of Sampling Designs in Item Response Theory Models Constraint Optimization: A Perspective of IRT Parameter Estimation The Optimization of Decision Studies Simultaneous Optimization of the Aptitude Treatment Interaction Decision Problem with Mastery Scores Appendix: Fifth International Objective Measurement Workshop University of California, Berkeley, March 25-26,1989 Author Index Subject Index