jay warner had earlier elaborated on the use of the term ... "item
independence" ... to mean that the position of an item in the test would
not impact on the likelihood of examinees answering the item correctly or
not ... yes ... this is usually the meaning given to that term
but, i would li
Jay Warner wrote:
>
> If the distribution is monomodal, not bounded (one peak, tails on both
> sides), and within some rational range of a Normal, then a transformation
> can be performed to make it look 'Normal.' See the Johnson transformation
> in some commercial stat packages.
>
> The next
dennis roberts wrote:
> At 01:34 AM 6/16/01 -0500, Jay Warner wrote:
>
> >but Doug Sawyer did not ask exactly that question. What he _may_ be asking
> >is whether a bank of questions could be developed, that are more or less
> >independent of one another,
>
> you mean uncorrelated??? across the
At 01:34 AM 6/16/01 -0500, Jay Warner wrote:
>but Doug Sawyer did not ask exactly that question. What he _may_ be asking
>is whether a bank of questions could be developed, that are more or less
>independent of one another,
you mean uncorrelated??? across the same set of examinees when
adminis
In response to Doug Sawyer's post:
> >I am trying to locate a journal article or textbook that addresses
> >whether or not exam quesitons can be normalized, when the questions
> >are grouped differently. For example, could a question bank be
> >developed where any subset of questions could be
I am trying to locate a journal article or textbook that addresses
whether or not exam quesitons can be normalized, when the questions are
grouped differently. For example, could a question bank be developed
where any subset of questions could be selected, and the assembled exam
is normalized?
W
