Authors:Paul W. Holland, Howard Wainer,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: functioning, item, differential
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0805809724
ISBN-13: 9780805809725

Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups of examinees and on using this information to improve tests. Of interest to all testing and measurement specialists, it examines modern techniques used routinely to insure test fairness. Three of these relevant to the book’s contents are: * detailed reviews of test items by subject matter experts and members of the major subgroups in society (gender, ethnic, and linguistic) that will be represented in the ex

Authors:Alina A. von Davier, Paul W. Holland, Dorothy T. Tha
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: social, behavioral, sciences, statistics, equating, method, test, kernel
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0387019855
ISBN-13: 9780387019857

This book is aimed at (a) practitioners who need to equate tests-including those with these responsibilities in testing companies, state testing agencies and school districts; (b) statisticians and other research workers interested in the theory behind such work and the use of model based statistical methods of data smoothing in applied work; (c) advanced graduate students in psychometric and measurement programs. While there are other books on test equating, and books of the use of kernel smoothing, no one has published any work on the kernel method of test equating. It is something of a u

Authors:Jimmie C. Holland, William Breitbart, Paul B. Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oncology, psycho
Number of Pages: 1189
Published: 1998-01-15
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0195106148
ISBN-13: 9780195106145

This volume describes the many ways in which mental health professionals have contributed to improving the lot of the cancer patient. A large section of the book is devoted to the psychological, social and behavioral factors that contribute to cancer risk and survival. Changing habits and behavior--reducing smoking, increasing certain foods intake, and decreasing sun exposure, for instance--is a significant factor in cancer risk, and becomes the focus of several chapters. Social class and socioeconomic issues are analyzed as far as they affect cancer risk and survival. Two chapters explore the

Authors:Neil J. Dorans, Mary Pommerich, Paul W. Holland,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: social, behavioral, sciences, statistics, scales, aligning, scores, linking
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0387497706
ISBN-13: 9780387497709

In this book, experts in statistics and psychometrics describe classes of linkages, the history of score linkings, data collection designs, and methods used to achieve sound score linkages. They describe and critically discuss applications to a variety of domains. They define what linking is, to distinguish among the varieties of linking and to describe different procedure for linking. Furthermore, they convey the complexity and diversity of linking by covering different areas of linking and providing diverse perspectives.

Authors:Jeannette Holland Austin, Dorothy Holland Herring,
Publisher: Heritage Books Inc.
Keywords: tombstones, georgia, county, jackson
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 158549710X
ISBN-13: 9781585497102

A thorough canvas of Jackson County was made by the authors in 1969. They located family cemeteries, church cemeteries, as well as, isolated cemeteries found on county maps and by word of mouth.

Authors:F A Holland *Decd*, C.L. Heard, F.A. Holland, S. S
Publisher: Spon Pre
Keywords: pumps, heat, using, purification, water
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1999-08-04
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0419247106
ISBN-13: 9780419247104

This book provides the design basis for the fabrication of small and large scale commercial absorption heat pump systems and includes a comprehensive treatment of the economics of heat pump systems. It charts the development of heat pump technology from theoretical principles to the operation of practical systems for the purification of water. It is essential reading for industrial engineers and others concerned with the cost-effective, environmentally friendly production of clean water.

Authors:Nancy J. Holland, Nancy J. Holland, Patricia J. Hunt
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: reading, canon, heidegger, martin, interpretations, feminist
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0271021551
ISBN-13: 9780271021553

"The essays in this collection are all of very high quality and excellent scholarship. They represent the work of some of the most important feminist scholars of Heidegger and other Heidegger scholars more generally. The essays reflect diverse approaches to Heidegger, some critical, some sympathetic. This volume will give students and scholars a good introduction not only to the variety of approaches of feminist theorists but also to different approaches to Heidegger." —Kelly Oliver, SUNY, Stony Brook Martin Heidegger’s commitment to the idea that Dasein (human existence) is ultimately