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Sequential Sampling Plans for Use in Psychological Test Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Allyn W. Kimball
Allyn W. Kimball*
Affiliation:
Usaf School of Aviation Medicine Randolph Field, Texas
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Abstract

In large-scale psychological testing programs, it happens frequently that a group of items must be checked for accuracy with respect to certain characteristics. In many cases it is not feasible to check each item in the group separately, so that a decision concerning the entire group is usually reached by examining in detail only a small portion of the group. This paper proposes some sequential sampling plans for use in this type of work. A general discussion of the problem is followed by an illustrative example of the method applied to checking scores on groups of psychological test papers.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1950 , pp. 1 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © 1950 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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The stimulus for this paper was provided by Dr. S. B. Sells.

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