It facilitates test equating through a simple linear transformation, and its rich description of item performance provides guidance for the writing of new items.
Each context dimension was equated vertically through IRT, with Bayesian scoring across two years spanning prekindergarten through 1st grade.
Encouraged by an irresponsible tabloid press, victory in war over the Germans (unthinkingly equated with Nazis) provides, through yobbish football chants, a form of compensation for lack of success (until recently, at any rate) against "the enemy" on the football pitch.
Assimilation has, for immigrants, long been equated with health, while resistance often through the preservation of dietary or religious practices—has been similarly linked to illness.
Four colours (red, green, blue, or yellow) were calibrated for each participant for luminance through heterochromatic flicker photometry and equated to the luminance of grey distracters.
The pressure of the SIT can be equated to that of the reactor vessel through a pipe connected between the SIT and the pressurizer (PZR).
In Dialectic, the Enlightenment is largely equated with the advance of instrumental reason, and through instrumental reason, Enlightenment turns against itself.
Bird did that while suffering through a sort of grief he equated to when he lost his father.
Of the half-dozen workers HuffPost interviewed who'd cycled through the Baltimore location, all earned wages that equated to annual salaries in the mid- to high-$20,000s.
Until the Nasdaq index crashed through the atmosphere last spring, insiders' shares in a technology company were equated with manna from heaven.
But then Vidal cannot help himself, and he equates -- through Hoover of all people -- this stifling piece of bureaucracy with Hitler's Gestapo and Stalin's Gulag.
