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ERIC Number: EJ1171104
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0655
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Confidence Intervals for Weighted Composite Scores under the Compound Binomial Error Model
Kim, Kyung Yong; Lee, Won-Chan
Journal of Educational Measurement, v55 n1 p152-172 Spr 2018
Reporting confidence intervals with test scores helps test users make important decisions about examinees by providing information about the precision of test scores. Although a variety of estimation procedures based on the binomial error model are available for computing intervals for test scores, these procedures assume that items are randomly drawn from a undifferentiated universe of items, and therefore might not be suitable for tests developed according to a table of specifications. To address this issue, four interval estimation procedures that use category subscores for the computation of confidence intervals are presented in this article. All four estimation procedures assume that subscores instead of test scores follow a binomial distribution (i.e., compound binomial error model). The relative performance of the four compound binomial-based interval estimation procedures is compared to each other and to the better known normal approximation and Wilson score procedures based on the binomial error model.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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