Overview: Define what linking is, to distinguish among the varieties of linking and to describe different procedure for linking.Convey the complexity and diversity of linking by covering different areas of linkIn their preface to the second edition of Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking, Mike Kolen and Bob Brennan (2004) made the following observation: “Prior to 1980, the subject of equating was ignored by most people in the measurement community except for psychometricians, who had responsibility for equating” (p. vii). The authors went on to say that considerably more attention is now paid t
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