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Download full textMcKinley, Robert – 1993
A study was conducted to examine patterns of test preparation for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) during the 1990-1991 testing year. This represented an extension of an earlier study that examined self-report test preparation methods for the June and October 1989 test administrations. In this study, five types of analysis were performed: (1)…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Law Schools, Law Students, Study
Reese, Lynda; McKinley, Robert – 1993
In item calibration using LOGIST (M. Wingersky, R. Patrick, and F. Lord, 1987), when the program determines that it cannot accurately estimate the c-parameter for a particular item due to insufficient information at the lower levels of ability, an estimate of the c-parameters, called COMC, is obtained by combining all such items. The purpose of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Estimation (Mathematics), Law Schools, Law Students
