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Equating adjusts for differences in difficulty, not differences in content. That statement on page 3 is one of the most important sentences in the introductory chapter of this book. To a large extent this chapter considers situations in which statistical adjustments are made to scores for tests that differ in content and/or difficulty, and usually both. In some cases, these differences are relatively small; in most cases, tests clearly measure very different content/constructs. We refer generically to a relationship between scores on such tests as a linking.
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Kolen, M.J., Brennan, R.L. (2004). Linking. In: Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking. Statistics for Social Science and Public Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4310-4_10
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