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Test Theory and Psychometrika: The Past Twenty-Five Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Charles Lewis
Charles Lewis*
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University of Groningen
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Abstract

On the occasion of Psychometrika's fiftieth anniversary, the past twenty-five years' developments in mental test theory are reviewed, with special emphasis on the topics receiving attention in the pages of this journal. (Analogous reviews for Psychometrika's first quarter century were given by Gulliksen and Guilford in 1961.) Much of the recent progress in test theory (and in other branches of psychometrics as well) has been made by treating the problems in this field as being essentially ones of statistical inference. It is concluded that (a) research in test theory is in a healthy state and (b) Psychometrika is an important source of information about that research.

Type
50th Anniversary Section
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 11 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

The author wishes to thank Jos ten Berge and Anne Boomsma for useful suggestions, and Geertje Winkel for help in preparing the manuscript.

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