Objective Measurement

MARK WILSON is Professor of Education at the University of Californai at Berkeley, specializing in the areas of educational assessment, educational evaluation and applied statistics. He has published 28 articles in refereed journals, edited four books, contributed 23 chapters to edited books, and made many presentations at meetings of professional groups.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTIONObjective Measurement: The State of the ArtThe International Objective Measurement Workshops: Past and FutureObjectivity in Measurement: A Philosophical History of Rasch's Separability TheoremMEASUREMENT PRACTICEUsing Rasch Procedures to Understand Psychometric Structure in Measures of PersonalityMeasuring Changes in the Quality of School Life. Distinguishing Between Shared and Unique Employee NeedsPartial-Credit Modeling and Response Surface Modeling of Biobehavioral DataPolytomous Rasch Models for Behavioral Assessments: The Tufts Assessment of Motor PerformanceVertically Equating Reading Tests: An Example from Chicago Public SchoolsMEASUREMENT THEORYComponents of Difficulty in Spatial Ability Test ItemsTest Anxiety and Item Order: New Concerns for Item Response TheoryObjective Measurement of Rank-Ordered ObjectsConjunctive Measurement Theory: Cognitive Research ProjectsA Rasch Model with a Multivariate Distribution of AbilityMATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS TO MEASUREMENTComputerized Test ConstructionOptimality of Sampling Designs in Item Response Theory ModelsConstraint Optimization: A Perspective of IRT Parameter EstimationThe Optimization of Decision StudiesSimultaneous Optimization of the Aptitude Treatment Interaction Decision Problem with Mastery ScoresAppendix: Fifth International Objective Measurement Workshop University of California, Berkeley, March 25-26,1989Author IndexSubject Index