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The measurement practice section illustrates the application of objective measurement methods to personality psychology, a sociological study of school environment, personnel management, pain research, motor performance, and curriculum development. It emphasizes practice over theory, showing how measurement practice contributes valuable perspectives on substantive theory. The measurement theory section describes the development of new measurement models that extend objective measurement into learning contexts, rank-ordered data, and multidimensional profiles composed of subtests. These are complemented by a study of the use of objective measurement to examine the construct validity of items, and an exploration of the impact of text anxiety and item order on measurements. The final section examines recent developments in mathematical programming techniques applied to test assembly, parameter estimation and generalizability theory.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTIONObjective Measurement: The State of the ArtThe International Objective Measurement Workshops: Past and FutureObjectivity in Measurement: A Philosophical History of Rasch's Separability TheoremMEASUREMENT PRACTICEUsing Rasch Procedures to Understand Psychometric Structure in Measures of PersonalityMeasuring Changes in the Quality of School Life. Distinguishing Between Shared and Unique Employee NeedsPartial-Credit Modeling and Response Surface Modeling of Biobehavioral DataPolytomous Rasch Models for Behavioral Assessments: The Tufts Assessment of Motor PerformanceVertically Equating Reading Tests: An Example from Chicago Public SchoolsMEASUREMENT THEORYComponents of Difficulty in Spatial Ability Test ItemsTest Anxiety and Item Order: New Concerns for Item Response TheoryObjective Measurement of Rank-Ordered ObjectsConjunctive Measurement Theory: Cognitive Research ProjectsA Rasch Model with a Multivariate Distribution of AbilityMATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS TO MEASUREMENTComputerized Test ConstructionOptimality of Sampling Designs in Item Response Theory ModelsConstraint Optimization: A Perspective of IRT Parameter EstimationThe Optimization of Decision StudiesSimultaneous Optimization of the Aptitude Treatment Interaction Decision Problem with Mastery ScoresAppendix: Fifth International Objective Measurement Workshop University of California, Berkeley, March 25-26,1989Author IndexSubject Index
About the author
Mark Wilson is the founder and director of the Asia Minor Research Center in Antalya, Turkey. He currently has academic appointments at Stellenbosch University, the University of South Africa, Ridley College, and Regent University. He is the author of Biblical Turkey (2014) and Victory through the Lamb (2014).
