On 15 Jun 2001 14:24:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Sawyer) wrote: > 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? > > What is name of this area of statistics? What authors or keywords would > I use for such a search? Do you know whether or not this can be done? I believe that they do this sort of thing in scholastic achievement tests, as a matter of course. Isn't that how they make the transition from year to year? I guess this would be "norming". A few weeks ago, I discovered that there is a whole series of tech-reports put out by one of the big test companies. I would look back to it, for this sort of question. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
