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ERIC Number: EJ355061
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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The Reliability of a Promotional Job Knowledge Examination Scored by Number of Items Right and by Four Confidence Weighting Procedures and Its Corresponding Concurrent Validity Estimates Relative to Performance Criterion Ratings.
Friedland, David L.; Michael, William B.
Educational and Psychological Measurement, v47 n1 p179-88 Spr 1987
A sample of 153 male police officers were subjects in a test validation study with two objectives: (1) to compare reliability estimates of a 16-item objective achievement examination scored by the conventional items right formula and by four different procedures; and (2) to obtain comparative concurrent validity coefficients of scores arising from these procedures. (LMO)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Concurrent Validity, Correlation, Police, Scoring, Test Reliability, Weighted Scores
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Police Procedures Test