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Effect of Examinee Group on Equating Relationships

The American College Testing Program

Michael J. Kolen

The American College Testing Program

Many educational tests make use of multiple test forms, which are then horizontally equated to establish interchangeability among forms. To have confidence in this interchangeability, the equating relationships should be robust to the particular group of examinees on which the equating is conducted. This study inves tigated the effects of ability of the examinee group used to establish the equating relationship on linear, equipercentile, and three-parameter logistic IRT esti mated true score equating methods. The results show all of the methods to be reasonably independent of ex aminee group, and suggest that population independ ence is not a good reason for selecting one method over another.

Applied Psychological Measurement, Vol. 10, No. 1, 35-43 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/014662168601000103


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