Table of Contents
Part I Introduction to item response theory; Chapter 1 Classical Test Theory— Summary and Perspective; Chapter 2 Item Response Theory— Introduction and Preview; Chapter 3 Relation of Item Response Theory to Conventional Item Analysis; Chapter 4 Test Scores and Ability Estimates as Functions of Item Parameters; Chapter 5 Information Functions and Optimal Scoring Weights; Part II Applications of item Response Theory; Chapter 6 The Relative Efficiency of Two Tests; Chapter 7 1This Chapter is adapted by special permission from F. M. Lord, Optimal number of choices per item—a comparison of four approaches. Journal of Educational Measurement, Spring 1977, 14, No. 1. Copyright 1977. National Council on Measurement in Education, Inc., East Lansing, Mich. Research reported was supported by grant GB-41999 from the National Science Foundation.; Chapter 8 1 through and are taken with special permission and with some revisions from F. M. Lord, The self-scoring flexilevel test. Journal of Educational Measurement, Fall 1971, 8, No. 3, 147-151. Copyright 1971, National Council on Measurement in Education, Inc., East Lansing, Mich.; Chapter 9 1– are revised and printed with permission from F. M. Lord, A theoretical study of two-stage testing. Psychometrika, 1971, 36, 227-242. and Multilevel Tests; Chapter 10 Tailored Testing; Chapter 11 Mastery Testing; Part III Practical Problems And Further Applications; Chapter 12 Estimating Ability and Item Parameters; Chapter 13 Equating; Chapter 14 Study of Item Bias; Chapter 15 Omitted Responses and Formula Scoring; Part IV Estimating True-Score Distributions; Chapter 16 Estimating True-Score Distributions; Chapter 17 Estimated True-Score Distributions for Two Tests;
