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Group-level Domain Score and Its Estimation Methods

Xin Tao, Xie Min   

  1. The Institute of Developmental Psychology of Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2010-07-15 Published:2010-07-15

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Abstract: Needs for talent resources have gotten many countries and international organizations' high attentions, and they all have done some large-scale education assessments in country or region level.How to translate the students' performance into readable and informative score reports is an important and inevitable problems confronted by the large scale assessment.Domain score is often preferred by researchers and practitioners because of its understandability and readability for public.This paper detailed the definition of group domain score,its estimation methods and relevant researches,finally discussed the further study needed in the further.

Key words: Large-scale educational assessment, group-level domain score, estimation method, IRT method

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  • B841
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