Educational measurement for applied researchers : theory into practice /: theory into practice. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret Wu, Hak Ping Tam, Tsung-Hau Jen.
• Authors: Wu, Margaret; Tam, Hak Ping; Jen, Tsung-Hau
• Contents: Preface; Contents; 1 What Is Measurement?; Measurements in the Physical World; Measurements in the Psycho-social Science Context; Psychometrics; Formal Definitions of Psycho-social Measurement; Levels of Measurement; Nominal; Ordinal; Interval; Ratio; Increasing Levels of Measurement in the Meaningfulness of the Numbers; The Process of Constructing Psycho-social Measurements; Define the Construct; Distinguish Between a General Survey and a Measuring Instrument; Write, Administer, and Score Test Items; Produce Measures; Reliability and Validity; Reliability; Validity. Graphical Representations of Reliability and ValiditySummary; Discussion Points; Car Survey; Taxi Survey; Exercises; References; Further Reading; 2 Construct, Framework and Test Development-From IRT Perspectives; Introduction; Linking Validity to Construct; Construct in the Context of Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT); Unidimensionality in Relation to a Construct; The Nature of a Construct-Psychological Trait or Arbitrarily Defined Construct?; Practical Considerations of Unidimensionality; Theoretical and Practical Considerations in Reporting Sub-scale Scores. Placement of Items in a TestImplications of Fatigue Effect; Balanced Incomplete Block (BIB) Booklet Design; Arranging Markers; Summary; Discussion Points; Exercises; Appendix 1: Computation of Measurement Error; References; Further Reading; 4 Test Administration and Data Preparation; Introduction; Sampling and Test Administration; Sampling; Field Operations; Data Collection and Processing; Capture Raw Data; Prepare a Codebook; Data Processing Programs; Data Cleaning; Summary; Discussion Points; Exercises; School Questionnaire; References; Further Reading; 5 Classical Test Theory; Introduction. Concepts of Measurement Error and ReliabilityFormal Definitions of Reliability and Measurement Error; Assumptions of Classical Test Theory; Definition of Parallel Tests; Definition of Reliability Coefficient; Computation of Reliability Coefficient; Standard Error of Measurement (SEM); Correction for Attenuation (Dis-attenuation) of Population Variance; Correction for Attenuation (Dis-attenuation) of Correlation; Other CTT Statistics; Item Difficulty Measures; Item Discrimination Measures; Item Discrimination for Partial Credit Items.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 371.26; 519.5; Educational tests and measurements; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions; Educational tests and measurements; Statistics; Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Mathematical Software; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811033025; 9811033021; 9811033005; 9789811033001
• Related ISBNs: 9789811033001
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 18, 2017).
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