This volume provides a summary of traditional and modern psychometrics pertaining to scoring tests. It is intended for researchers and students in education and social sciences interested in the integration of educational assessment and policy, test design and development, and procedures for test administration and scoring.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface. D. Thissen, H. Wainer, Overview of Test Scoring.Part I: Traditional Test Theory and Item Response Theory.H. Wainer, D. Thissen, True Score Theory: The Traditional Method. D. Thissen, M. Orlando, Item Response Theory for Items Scored in Two Categories. D. Thissen, L. Nelson, K. Rosa, L.D. McLeod, Item Response Theory for Items Scored in More Than Two Categories. Part II: Factor Analytic Theory.L.D. McLeod, K.A. Swygert, D. Thissen, Factor Analysis for Items Scored in Two Categories. K.A. Kwygert, L.D. McLeod, D. Thissen, Factor Analysis for Items or Testlets Scored in More Than Two Categories. Part III: Special Problems, Special Solutions (A Section of Applications).K. Rosa, K.A. Swygert, L. Nelson, D. Thissen, Item Response Theory Applied to Combinations of Multiple-Choice and Constructed-Response Items--Scale Scores for Patterns of Summed Scores. D. Thissen, L. Nelson, K.A. Swygert, Item Response Theory Applied to Combinations of Multiple-Choice and Constructed-Response Items--Approximation Methods for Scale Scores. H. Wainer, J.L. Vevea, F. Camacho, B.B. Reeve, III, K. Rosa, L. Nelson, K.A. Swygert, D. Thissen, Augmented Scores--"Borrowing Strength" to Compute Scores Based on Small Numbers of Items.
Review :
"[This] comprehensive and careful hardback provides a thorough coverage of traditional and modern approaches to the valid scoring of responses to objective assessment items, both individual and in sets....While the background to the work is the state-wide assessment of learners in the US, it is entirely applicable to the administration of objective assessments in any context, at least where the scale is large enough....Test Scoring pulls no mathematical punches, and we're into matrix algebra and statistical variance manipulation within a couple of dozen pages."
—British Journal of Educational Technology
