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Bayesian Statistics1
Criterion Referenced Tests1
Elementary Secondary Education1
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Scandinavian Journal of…1
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Wedman, Ingemar1
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Allocating Individuals into Mastery States on the Basis of Expected Utilities.
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Wedman, Ingemar – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1981
Describes a procedure, called a full Bayesian procedure, for making decisions in connection with criterion-referenced measurements. The procedure uses continuous utility functions instead of a dichotomized utility structure and combines the posterior distribution for a certain person with utility functions for "advance" and "retain" decisions…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectancy Tables