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The Gleser-DuBois conditions for selecting from a number of test items those which will maximize the correlation between total test score and criterion will degenerate into expressions requiring only item counts on total distributions and the upper halves of distributions. A grouping convention for scores near medians is recommended. The inefficiency of the method is easily compensated for, because, regardless of the size of the sample, only standard test-scoring equipment and brief computations are required. A procedure is outlined, and some applications are discussed.
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Webster, H. Approximating maximum test validity by a non-parametric method. Psychometrika 18, 207–211 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289057
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289057