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Peer reviewedWainer, Howard; Thissen, David – Applied Measurement in Education, 1993
Because assessment instruments of the future may well be composed of a combination of types of questions, a way to combine those scores effectively is discussed. Two new graphic tools are presented that show that it may not be practical to equalize the reliability of different components. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Educational Assessment, Graphs, Item Response Theory
