Psychometric Theory

by Jum C. Nunnally

Book Overview

This text considers the measurement problems that arise in areas of psychology, education and areas of business such as management and marketing. This edition includes: statistical estimation; modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070474656
• ISBN13: 9780070474659
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 701 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

This is a classic text!

This is the kind of text that anyone who's heavily involved in educational measurement needs to own! It truly is a classic text, and is both full of information and accessible.

Indispensable

The thing I most admire about Nunnally is how well his work holds up even decades after the book was first written, and Nunnally's own death. Although academic works such as this typically have a half life of two or three years, it seems that Nunnally may be even more useful now than it was twenty-five years ago. There are other books that address the same type of material, but they all cite Nunnally, and none have, as yet, effectively replaced him.

A great guideline for Tests

It's a very concise book and describes the theory in a very didatic way. The only problem of the book is the little enphasis to the Item Response theory (IRT).