Inevitably, a lucky fan would emerge, raise the ball proudly and either turn it into a collector's item to be treated with the same care as a Fabergé Egg or return it to the Paul Bunyan in Cardinal red for a chance to meet an idol.
This is of particular concern when parameter estimates of items are going to be treated as known in other applications, for example, in adaptive testing, as part of a calibrated item pool, or for test construction purposes (Davey and Lee 2011; van Barneveld 2007).
Wooden items will probably need to be treated with wood preservative to prolong their life in the garden.
DCGM-37 had one item that dealt with how to be treated differently by teachers, which was assigned to individual attitudes of other professionals (e455).
Rugs, mattresses, curtains, and other similar items may be treated in factories to proof them from moths and other pests [ 34].
The answers to each item may be treated both as Likert sum score (recommended for use in longitudinal studies when measuring change) with weights assigned to each response 0-1-2-3 0-1-2-3 0-1-2-3 0-1-2-3 of 0–90, and as case sum score with weights (0-0-1-1) and possible range 0–30.
As in generalizability theory, items would be treated as random effects, nested within individual respondents.
If confirmed, they may have important implications for how misfitting items should be treated.
