The use of test scores from large-scale assessment surveys: psychometric and statistical considerations

Abstract Background Economists are making increasing use of measures of student achievement obtained through large-scale survey assessments such as NAEP, TIMSS, and PISA. The construction of these measures, employing plausible value (PV) methodology, is quite different from that of the more familiar...

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Main Authors: Henry Braun, Matthias von Davier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-11-01
Series:Large-scale Assessments in Education
Subjects:
IRT
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40536-017-0050-x