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Scoring Weighted Multiple Keyed Tests on the IBM Counting Sorter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Ralph Bedell
Ralph Bedell*
Affiliation:
The University of Nebraska
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Abstract

Tests or personal inventories with differential item response weights may be scored by means of punch card equipment. Detailed instructions are given for preparing the cards and scoring the forms. The scoring speed is approximately four to eight times that attained by manual scoring.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 1940 , pp. 195 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © 1940 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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The author is indebted to H. M. Cox, University of Nebraska, for certain suggestions on the columnar coding and the method of checking herein presented.

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* These are card-making operations, not test-scoring operations. The Interpreter is a machine which automatically prints at the top of each card information punched in the card. The Reproducing Punch is another machine which automatically duplicates and verifies new decks from the original punched deck. It is not necessary to lease these machines as the service here indicated may be obtained through any International Business Machines office at nominal charge.