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    <title>Linking and aligning scores and scales</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Holland, Paul W.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Springer</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xx, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>A framework and history for score linking / Paul W. Holland -- Data collection designs and linking procedures / Michael J. Kolen -- Equating : best practices and challenges to best practices / Nancy S. Petersen -- Practical problems in equating test scores : a practitioner’s perspective / Linda L. Cook -- Potential solutions to practical equating issues / Alina A. von Davier -- Score linking issues related to test content changes / Jinghua Liu, Michael E. Walker -- Linking scores derived under different modes of test administration / Daniel R. Eignor -- Tests in transition : discussion and synthesis / Robert L. Brennan -- Sizing up linkages / Neil J. Dorans, Michael E. Walker -- Concordance : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Mary Pommerich -- Some further thoughts on concordance / Richard Sawyer -- Practical issues in vertical scaling / Deborah J. Harris -- Methods and models for vertical scaling / Richard J. Patz, Lihua Yao -- Vertical scaling and no child left behind / Wendy M. Yen -- Linking assessments based on aggregate reporting : background and issues / David Thissen -- An enhanced method for mapping state standards onto the NAEP scale / Henry I. Braun, Jiahe Qian -- Using aggregate-level linkages for estimation and validation : comments on Thissen and Braun &amp; Qian / Daniel Koretz -- Postscript</tableOfContents>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Neil J. Dorans, Mary Pommerich, Paul W. Holland (editors) ; foreword by Ida M. Lawrence</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index</note>
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    <topic>Social sciences</topic>
    <topic>Statistical methods</topic>
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    <topic>Educational tests and measurements</topic>
    <topic>Evaluation</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Scaling (Social sciences)</topic>
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