Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Evaluating Equating Results: Percent Relative Error for Chained Kernel Equating. |
| Authors: |
Jiang, Yanlin1, von Davier, Alina A.1, Chen, Haiwen1 |
| Source: |
Journal of Educational Measurement. Mar2012, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p39-58. 18p. 4 Charts, 6 Graphs. |
| Subject Terms: |
Kernel functions, Population, Complex variables, Geometric function theory, Error |
| Abstract: |
This article presents a method for evaluating equating results. Within the kernel equating framework, the percent relative error (PRE) for chained equipercentile equating was computed under the nonequivalent groups with anchor test (NEAT) design. The method was applied to two data sets to obtain the PRE, which can be used to measure equating effectiveness. The study compared the PRE results for chained and poststratification equating. The results indicated that the chained method transformed the new form score distribution to the reference form scale more effectively than the poststratification method. In addition, the study found that in chained equating, the population weight had impact on score distributions over the target population but not on the equating and PRE results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
