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Kubinger, Klaus D.; Rasch, Dieter; Yanagida, Takuya – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2011
Though calibration of an achievement test within psychological and educational context is very often carried out by the Rasch model, data sampling is hardly designed according to statistical foundations. However, Kubinger, Rasch, and Yanagida (2009) recently suggested an approach for the determination of sample size according to a given Type I and…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Simulation, Testing, Achievement Tests
Tang, K. Linda; And Others – 1993
This study compared the performance of the LOGIST and BILOG computer programs on item response theory (IRT) based scaling and equating for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) using real and simulated data and two calibration structures. Applications of IRT for the TOEFL program are based on the three-parameter logistic (3PL) model.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Equated Scores, Estimation (Mathematics)
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Fowler, Mary S.; Kadane, Joseph B. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2006
Part of the history of oil and gas development on Indian reservations concerns potential underpayment of royalties due to under-valuation of production by oil companies. This paper discusses a model used by the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes in a lawsuit against the Federal government, claiming the Government failed to collect adequate royalties.…
Descriptors: Fuels, American Indian Education, Federal Government, Probability