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Cutting Scores and Errors of Measurement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Frederic M. Lord
Frederic M. Lord*
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service
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Abstract

Arguments for using multiple cutting scores are theoretically inapplicable when the selection measures are fallible. The effect of errors of measurement in altering the shape of some optimum selection regions is here investigated mathematically, with numerical illustrations, for the case of two selection variables.

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Psychometrika , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1962 , pp. 19 - 30
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Copyright © 1962 The Psychometric Society

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This work was supported by contract Nonr-2752(00) between the Office of Naval Research and Educational Testing Service. Reproduction in whole or in part for any purpose of the United States Government is permitted.

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