AN APPLICATION OF ITEM‐EXAMINEE SAMPLING TO SCALING ATTITUDES
David M. Shoemaker · Journal of Educational Measurement · 1971
The post mortem item‐examinee sampling investigation described herein explored the feasibility of using item‐examinee sampling to estimate scale values denoting degree of affect toward stimuli when measured by the method of paired‐comparisons. Results indicate that such scale values can be approximated satisfactorily through item‐examinee sampling. Defining one observation as the response made by one examinee to one item, the similarity between the estimated scale values and normative scale values increased generally with increases in the number of observations acquired by the sampling plan.