Psychometrics

C.R. Rao · Sandip Sinharay

nov. de 2006 · Elsevier

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The area of Psychometrics, a field encompassing the statistical methods used in Psychological and educational testing, has become a very important and active area of research, evident from the large body of literature that has been developed in the form of books, volumes and research papers.Mainstream statisticians also have found profound interest in the field because of its unique nature.This book presents a state of the art exposition of theoretical, methodological and applied issues in Psychometrics. This book represents a thorough cross section of internationally renowned thinkers who are inventing methods for dealing with recent challenging psychometric problems.Key Features/- Emphasis on the most recent developments in the field- Plenty of real, often complicated, data examples to demonstrate the applications of the statistical techniques- Information on available software - Authors from the leading testing companies - Emphasis on the most recent developments in the field - Plenty of real, often complicated, data examples to demonstrate the applications of the statistical techniques - Information on available software

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Sandip Sinharay is the Linda Cook Chair in the Science of Measurement at the ETS Research Institute. He received his M.Stat degree from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University in 2001 before joining ETS in the same year. Dr. Sinharay is the current editor of Psychometrika and a past editor of the Journal of Educational Measurement (2020-2022) and the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2010-2014). He has received seven awards from the National Council on Measurement in Education including the Career Contributions Award (2025), the award for Technical or Scientific Contributions to the Field of Educational Measurement (in 2009 and 2015), and the Jason Millman Promising Measurement Scholar Award (2006). He received the ETS Scientist award in 2008 and the ETS Presidential award twice. Dr. Sinharay has co-authored a book on subscores and coedited two published volumes: Handbook of Statistics, Volume 26 (2007; with C. R. Rao) and Looking Back (2011; with Neil J. Dorans). He authored or coauthored more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. His research interests include Bayesian statistics, culturally responsive assessments, detection of test fraud, test fairness, missing data analysis, item response theory, model checking and model selection methods, and reporting of diagnostic scores. Some of his research has been funded by U.S. federal agencies including the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation.

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