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| Achievement Tests | 1 |
| Arithmetic | 1 |
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Smith, Donald M. – 1974
The concept of scaled achievement tests is discussed and a method of selecting those items of a test that form the most scalable (i.e., having the highest coefficient of reproducibility) subset is presented. Sometimes called a monotonic-deterministic model, this type of test assumes that the test items may be sequentially ordered. To determine the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Difficulty Level, Item Analysis


