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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746088203321

Autore

Andrich David

Titolo

Rasch Meta-Metres of Growth for Some Intelligence and Attainment Tests / / by David Andrich, Ida Marais, Sonia Sappl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9789819946938

981994693X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MaraisIda

SapplSonia

Disciplina

371.26

Soggetti

Educational tests and measurements

Learning, Psychology of

Educational psychology

Mathematics - Study and teaching

Assessment and Testing

Instructional Theory

Educational Psychology

Mathematics Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Measurement and the study of growth -- Probabilistic fundamental measurement and invariance -- The formulation of a meta-metre in which growth is linear -- Estimates of the rate of growth and initial status -- Application of the modified meta-metre to physical growth -- Growth on the Stanford-Binet test of general intelligence,- Growth in reading and mathematics achievement: ECLS-K study -- Growth in reading and mathematics achievement: NLSY study -- Further examples of growth in reading and mathematics achievement -- Decelerating growth and the setting of an early trajectory -- Summary and discussion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book adapts Rasch’s approach for quantifying growth on physiological variables, where growth decelerates, to intellectual variables. To apply this approach, it is necessary to construct



measurements in a constant unit over the relevant range of the variable. With such measurements, the book illustrates the approach to quantifying growth on six intellectual variables - two intelligences tests and two each of tests of proficiencies in reading comprehension and mathematics. The book discusses how it is not immediately obvious that deceleration on a quantitative scale should also hold for the growth in intellectual variables. It goes on to show that this is indeed the case with all six tests analysed and considers some implications of this feature for understanding intellectual development, in particular the centrality of the growth trajectory set in early life. .