Improving Measurement in Couple and Family Therapy: An Item Response Theory Primer.
The valid and reliable assessment of individual and relational functioning relies on high-quality assessment tools. Most assessments used in the field of couple and family therapy were developed using Classical Test Theory (CTT). An alternate theory for guiding the creation, evaluation, and scoring...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Marital & Family Therapy Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 603 - 620 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2020
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