Thanks for your efforts to add to the article. Some of your sentence structure is very difficult to follow. For example, "It is important that differences between the chance of people having an item correct only depends on differences between those people on the construct that is measured". The phrase "differences between the chance of people having an item correct" is especially problematic. I think I get the general idea of what you mean by the last half of the sentence, but the first part, frankly, is incomprehensible. Please take that as an effort to improve the article, not a personal attack. I'm an expert on testing (but, of course, credentials mean nothing on Wikipedia), but I really find the sentence very difficult to understand.
Also, I haven't taken the time yet to look at the source from SPA, but some of the phrasing sounds very familiar. Is it a direct quote? Maybe my memory is faulty. Thanks. Cresix ( talk) 23:42, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your efforts to add to the article. Some of your sentence structure is very difficult to follow. For example, "It is important that differences between the chance of people having an item correct only depends on differences between those people on the construct that is measured". The phrase "differences between the chance of people having an item correct" is especially problematic. I think I get the general idea of what you mean by the last half of the sentence, but the first part, frankly, is incomprehensible. Please take that as an effort to improve the article, not a personal attack. I'm an expert on testing (but, of course, credentials mean nothing on Wikipedia), but I really find the sentence very difficult to understand.
Also, I haven't taken the time yet to look at the source from SPA, but some of the phrasing sounds very familiar. Is it a direct quote? Maybe my memory is faulty. Thanks. Cresix ( talk) 23:42, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Please give these issues some thought. I'm not asking for immediate changes, but I am concerned that the article has some misleading (if not inaccurate) information: