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The chapters in this new volume describe original research concerned with both theory and practice in measurement. The material originated in presentations made at a conference that brings together practicing professionals and theoreticians in diverse areas of measurement and related fields. The first group of papers embody the most important aspect of objective measurement — its application to diverse contexts and purposes. The examples included concentrate on two types of situations: performance assessment and criterion-referenced testing. The specific contexts range from writing assessment, to assessment of the professional development of teachers, to high school physics. The second group of papers are focused on an area of great importance in assessment today: the modeling of raters and judges in an assessment context. The volume concludes with papers that explore the domain of theory in measurement, characterized by an innovative approach to model-building. Even though they are categorized as theory papers, most are based on the complicated and interesting problems that arise in quite specific contexts. As such, they represent some of the most original and exciting developments in the field of measurement today ranging from multidimensional measurement to graph theory and clustering techniques. This volume presents original research concerned with the practice of measurement, and the theory of measurement. The words in the title, objective measurement indicate that the chapters are all related to a particular approach to the philosophy and practice of measurement. By objective measurement, we mean that, in a situation where a certain class of stimuli (for example, items) are used to measure certain individuals. The chapters in this book originated in presentations made at the International Objective Measurement Workshop (IOMW) devoted to exploring the interface between theory and practice in measurement. Based on the complicated and interesting problems that arise in quite specific contexts, they represent some of the most original and exciting developments in the field of measurement today.

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Author:   Mark R. Wilson ,  George Engelhard, Jr.
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9781567504323

ISBN 10:   1567504329
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   31 May 2000
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

MEASUREMENT PRACTICE Setting and Evaluating Performance Standards for High Stakes Writing Assessments, George Engelhardt Jr. and Belita Gordon Formative Evaluation of a Performance Assessment Scoring System, Susan Paulukonis, Carol Myford and Joan I. Heller Using Criterionreferenced Maps to Produce Meaningful Evaluation Measures: Evaluating Changes in Middle School Science Teachers' Assessment Perceptions and Practice, Lily Roberts Using the Rasch Model to Study Large Scale Physics Exams in Australia, Andrew Stephanou APPLICATONS INVOLVING RATERS AND JUDGES Raters and Single Prompt-to-Prompt Equating Using the FACETS Model in a Writing Performance Assessment, Yi Du and William L. Brown An Examination of Variation in Rater Severity Over Time: A Study in Rater Drift, Mark Wilson and Harry Case A Method to Compare Rater Severity Across Several Administrations, Thomas R. O'Neill and Mary Lunz Detecting Rater Effects in Simulated Data with a Multi-faceted Rasch Rating Scale Model, Edward W. Wolfe, Chris W. T. Chiu and Carol M. Myford Unmodelled Rater Discrimination Error, Peter Congdon Setting Standards on Performance Examinations, Mary E. Lunz MEASUREMENT THEORY A Multicomponent Rasch Model for Measuring Covert Processes: Application to Lifespan Ability Changes, Susan Embretson and Karen M. Schmidt Interpreting the Parameters of a Multidimensional Rasch Model, Wen-chung Wang, Mark Wilson and Raymond J. Adams The Implications of Halo Effects and Item Dependencies for Objective Measurement, T. F. McNamara and Raymond J. Adams Rasch Measurement Theory, The Method of Paired Comparisons, and Graph Theory, Mary Garner and George Engelhard Jr. A Procedure for Detecting Pattern Clustering in Measurement Designs, George Marcoulides and Zvi Drezner Examining Replication Effects in Rasch Fit Statistics, Richard M. Smith, Randall E. Schumaker, and M. Joan Bush APPENDIX The Ninth International Objective Measurement Workshop

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MARK WILSON is Professor of Education at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in the areas of educational assessment, educational evaluation and applied statistics. He has published 28 articles in refereed journals, edited four books, contributed 23 chapters to edited books, and made many presentations at meetings of professional groups. GEORGE ENGLEHARD is a professor of educational measurement and policy at Emory University. Dr. Englehard has published over 75 articles, test reviews and book chapters. he is co-editor with Dr. Mark Wilson of the series of volumes on rasch measurement entitled: Objective Measurement: Theory into Practice published by Ablex.

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