Sacrificing Reliability and Exalting Sampling Error at the Altar of Parsimony : Some Cautions Concerning Short-Form Test Development / Robin K. Henson.

The purpose of this paper is to highlight some psychometric cautions that should be observed when seeking to develop short form versions of tests. Several points are made: (1) score reliability is impacted directly by the characteristics of the sample and testing conditions; (2) sampling error has a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Henson, Robin K.
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000.
Subjects:	Factor Structure. Psychometrics. Reliability. Sampling. Test Construction. Test Format. Test Length. Parsimony (Statistics) Opinion Papers. Reports, Descriptive. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Genre:	Opinion Papers. Reports, Descriptive. Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Physical Description:	29 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book

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