The Communication Profile for the Hearing Impaired (CPHI) is a 145-item self-assessment inventory that provides 25 scores describing the Communication Performance, Communication Environment, Communication Strategies, and Personal Adjustment of hearing-impaired adults. Frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, item-total correlations, and…

When the parameters of item response data are estimated by a latent trait model, some variation will remain unaccounted. If baseline graphical configurations of the residual variation can be constructed, measurement irregularities may be exposed. An analytic strategy for the graphical representation and analysis of Rasch model residuals is…

The present study compares the performance of phi coefficients and tetrachorics along two dimensions of factor recovery in binary data. These dimensions are (1) accuracy of nontrivial factor identifications; and (2) factor structure recovery given a priori knowledge of the correct number of factors to rotate. (Author/LMO)

Argues that classical test theory cannot be used at the item level on "authentic" language tests. However, if the total score is derived by adding the scores of a number of different and independent parts, test reliability can be estimated. Suggests using the Classical Latent Additives model to examine test-part homogeneity. (Author/SED)

The development and validation of a revised form of the RAM Scale in Likert format are described. The RAM Scale measures student philosophical orientations in terms of relative, absolute, or mixed biases or preferences toward issues of knowledge, methods, and values. (Author/PN)

This paper examines item response theory (IRT) scale transformations and IRT scale linking methods used in the Non-Equivalent Groups with Anchor Test (NEAT) design to equate two tests, X and Y. It proposes a unifying approach to the commonly used IRT linking methods: mean-mean, mean-var linking, concurrent calibration, Stocking and Lord and…

The purpose of this report is to inform users and other interested parties about the development, content and technical characteristics of the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments. It provides information for the 2003 "SOL" cycle that comprises the fall 2003 and spring 2004 administrations. The report is divided into three…

Forty questions, covering a wide range of mathematics, were asked of 867 ten-year-old students. A difficulty index, discrimination index, and ranking are reported for each question as well as teachers' ratings of the importance of each question. (LS)

Several samples of black and white students were drawn from the 1970 PSAT administration in Georgia and studies for item x race interaction on both the verbal and mathematical sections of the test. (Authors)

Purpose of the investigation was to identify the underlying content and cognitive dimensions in a standardized achievement test in the area of life and health insurance. (Author)

The present paper called attention to the difference between discrimination among individuals and discrimination among groups and suggested that the intraclass correlation coefficient should be used in the process of item selection whenever one is interested in discrimination among groups. (Author)

Low scores reveal that perhaps the real need is to search for and experiment with completely new approaches in the hope of awakening cultural interests in many of our students for the first time. (Author/MB)