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Download full textSinharay, Sandip; Holland, Paul – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
It is a widely held belief that an anchor test used in equating should be a miniature version (or "minitest") of the tests to be equated; that is, the anchor test should be proportionally representative of the two tests in content and statistical characteristics. This paper examines the scientific foundation of this belief, especially…
Descriptors: Test Items, Equated Scores, Correlation, Tests
