Sentences with phrase «psychometricians who»

Scoring metrics for the CMA (AAMA) exam are processed by the same professional psychometricians who provide this service for USMLE candidates.

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.»

Dr. Nhouyvanisvong is an educator and psychometrician who has taught courses in assessment theory and best practices.

Not exact matches

Mathematicians who specialize in measurement in the social sciences, together with experts in the construction and interpretation of tests — psychometricians — have devoted considerable attention to this matter.

Besides the chairperson, who was not expected to vote except to break a tie, the panel included two testing experts (psychometricians), one college admissions officer, and three persons with experience and training in the special - education and learning - disabilities arena.

I was one of the two psychometricians on the panel that advised the College Board on the issue of whether the SAT scores of disabled students who take the test with accommodations should be «flagged» (see Miriam Kurtzig Freedman, «Disabling the SAT,» Feature, Fall 2003).

• Gardner says that most psychometricians, those who devise and interpret tests as a way of probing the nature of intelligence, conceive of intelligence as unitary.

I am not a psychometrician, I am a mere lawyer who has been involved in policy.

Gary: with all due respect for those who post here, thank you for your patience with nit - picking, e.g., we could argue interminably over the use of the terms «validity» and «reliability» and «bias» as they are used generally and as they are used in very specific ways by psychometricians when talking about the construction and administration of standardized tests and the inferences that could be drawn about test scores.

As for the reaction of my colleagues in psychology, I'd say that the reaction ranged from mild enthusiasm (mostly from developmental and educational psychologists) to ignoring (by mainstream psychologists) to condemnation (by psychometricians — the technicians who make the tests and who feel that they «own» intelligence).

To construct the rejecting behavior composite, 1 point was awarded for each behavior that was rated by psychometricians and physicians as hostile or rejecting (eg, if the mother's expression of affect was consistently negative or if she was unresponsive to her child's needs; α =.71).35 Parents «criminal conviction history was assessed via a questionnaire posted to parents who were asked to report if they had ever been convicted of a crime; 3 % of the mothers and12 % of the fathers reported that they had been.