Books in the Measurement Methods for the Social Science series

Considers generalizability theory, covering such topics as generalizability studies with nested facets and with fixed facets, measurement error and generalizability co-efficients and decision studies with the same and with different designs.

By using familiar concepts from classical measurement methods and basic statistics, this book introduces the basics of item response theory (IRT) and explains the applications of IRT methods to problems in test construction, identification of potentially biased test items and test equating.