Objective Measurement Theory Into Practice, Volume 1

Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Objective Measurement: The State of the Art
The International Objective Measurement Workshops: Past and Future
Objectivity in Measurement: A Philosophical History of Rasch's Separability Theorem
MEASUREMENT PRACTICE
Using Rasch Procedures to Understand Psychometric Structure in Measures of Personality
Measuring Changes in the Quality of School Life. Distinguishing Between Shared and Unique Employee Needs
Partial-Credit Modeling and Response Surface Modeling of Biobehavioral Data
Polytomous Rasch Models for Behavioral Assessments: The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance
Vertically Equating Reading Tests: An Example from Chicago Public Schools
MEASUREMENT THEORY
Components of Difficulty in Spatial Ability Test Items
Test Anxiety and Item Order: New Concerns for Item Response Theory
Objective Measurement of Rank-Ordered Objects
Conjunctive Measurement Theory: Cognitive Research Projects
A Rasch Model with a Multivariate Distribution of Ability
MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS TO MEASUREMENT
Computerized Test Construction
Optimality of Sampling Designs in Item Response Theory Models
Constraint Optimization: A Perspective of IRT Parameter Estimation
The Optimization of Decision Studies
Simultaneous Optimization of the Aptitude Treatment Interaction Decision Problem with Mastery Scores
Appendix: Fifth International Objective Measurement Workshop University of California, Berkeley, March 25-26,1989
Author Index
Subject Index