SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF TEST SCORES

Education and Psychological Test Scores

Education, a long neglected variable affecting psychological test score, is in search of reemphasis. Some evidence for this has accumulated on the psychological tests constructed and standardized here at the department of Psychiatry, P.G.I., Chandigarh. Tentative norms prepared education wise on WAIS-Verbal section, PGI-Memory Scale, Proverb and Similarity Tests, Psychoticism Questionnaire, and...

Submodular Maximization using Test Scores

We consider the closely related problems of maximizing a submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint and that of maximizing the sum of submodular functions subject to a partition matroid contraint. Motivated by applications in team selection, we focus on settings where the function(s) can be expressed as the expected value of a symmetric submodular value function of a set of indepen...

Test Scores and Income Inequalities

International surveys in education became to be a popular source of information about student performance in economics. Increasing number of countries is participating in these surveys which extends opportunities for international studies. There are three surveys which cover more than 40 countries. These are PISA conducted by OECD, and TIMSS and PIRLS conducted by the consortium created by Inte...

ACT Research Explains New ACT® Test Writing Scores and Their Relationship to Other Test Scores

Inference and the Interpretation of Test Scores

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