In His Article Entitled "A Method of Scaling Psychological and Educational

question 165

Multiple Choice

In his article entitled "A Method of Scaling Psychological and Educational Tests," L.L.Thurstone introduced absolute scaling which was a

• A) procedure for obtaining a measure of item validity.
• B) procedure for obtaining a measure of item difficulty.
• C) procedure for deriving equal-appearing intervals.
• D) procedure for divining item reliability.

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Definitions:

Empiricism

The idea that everything a person knows comes from experience.

Naturalism

A philosophical viewpoint that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural explanations are excluded or discounted.

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