The Assessment of IADL Motor Skills: An Application of Many Faceted Rasch Analysis.
Traditional methods of developing tests have been driven by item content specification and have relied on the use of summed ordinal scores in an attempt to create a quantitative index of ability. There are fundamental problems with this approach to test development. The first problem is that the sum...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 319 - 330 |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Apr1993
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