Future of psychometrics: Ask what psychometrics can do for psychology

DOI10.1007/S11336-011-9242-4MaRDI QIDQ659065zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaas Sijtsma

Publication date 9 February 2012

Published in Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-011-9242-4

zbMATH Keywords

personnel selectiontheory constructionchange assessmentdecision quality based on short testsdidactics of psychometricstest validitytest-quality assessment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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