Sentences with phrase «psychometricians do»

Or at least that is the way psychometricians do it when building metrics.

Not exact matches

Why did one of the psychometricians, Stephen Sireci of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, vote to end flagging even though he was «not sure» that scores from tests taken with and without accommodations are comparable?

Indeed, Robert Brennan of the University of Iowa (who directs the Iowa testing programs), the psychometrician who said «no» and voted with the minority, wrote, «Crucial evidence from prediction studies does not support a conclusion that scores on College Board standardized tests administered with extended time to disabled students are comparable to scores on the same tests administered to nondisabled students without extended time.»

These companies hire testing experts, called psychometricians, to do extensive research and piloting to develop questions to include on tests.