Howard Wainer - Publications

Affiliations: 
School of Education University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States 
Area:
Tests and Measurements Education, Psychometrics Psychology

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Year Citation  Score
2020 Sakworawich A, Wainer H. Scoring Tests with Contaminated Response Vectors. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 45: 209-226. DOI: 10.3102/1076998619882902  0.309
2020 Friendly M, Wainer H. Galton's gleam Visual thinking and graphic discoveries Significance. 17: 28-33. DOI: 10.1111/1740-9713.01403  0.339
2019 Wainer H, Friendly M. Visual Answers to Scientific Questions American Scientist. 107: 210. DOI: 10.1511/2019.107.4.210  0.346
2019 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: A Statistician Reads the Obituaries: On the Relative Effects of Race and Crime on Employment Chance. 32: 53-56. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2019.1606604  0.332
2018 Wainer H, Friendly M. Visual Revelations: Ancient Visualizations Chance. 31: 62-64. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2018.1467645  0.329
2017 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: The Birth of Statistical Graphics and Their European Childhood: On the historical development of W.E.B. Du Bois's graphical narrative of a people Chance. 30: 61-67. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2017.1383117  0.311
2017 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: The Grabovsky Curve Chance. 30: 44-48. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2017.1302724  0.331
2016 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Evidence in the 2016 Presidential Campaign Chance. 29: 62-64. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2016.1234890  0.333
2016 Steinberg L, Wainer H. Visual Revelations: VAMs and Baseball Chance. 29: 64-64. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2016.1181970  0.329
2015 Wainer H, Rubin DB. Visual Revelations: Causal Inference and Death Chance. 28: 58-64. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2015.1042744  0.314
2014 Feinberg RA, Wainer H. When can we improve subscores by making them shorter?: The case against subscores with overlapping items Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice. 33: 47-54. DOI: 10.1111/Emip.12037  0.301
2014 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Happiness and Causal Inference Chance. 27: 61-64. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2014.988972  0.336
2014 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Musing About Changes in the SAT: Is the College Board Getting Rid of the Bulldog? Chance. 27: 59-63. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2014.965637  0.324
2012 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Waiting for Achilles Chance. 25: 50-51. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2012.752292  0.328
2012 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Cheating: Some Ways to Detect It Badly Chance. 25: 54-57. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2012.726566  0.315
2012 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: When Nothing Is Not Zero Chance. 25: 49-51. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2012.685371  0.328
2012 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Moral Statistics and the Thematic Maps of Joseph Fletcher Chance. 25: 43-46. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2012.668467  0.311
2011 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: How Much Is Tenure Worth? Chance. 24: 54-57. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2011.10739875  0.33
2011 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: The First Step Toward Wisdom Chance. 24: 60-61. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2011.10739864  0.326
2010 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Pies, Spies, Roses, Lines, and Symmetries Chance. 23: 58-61. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2010.10739838  0.301
2010 Wainer H, Ramsay J. Visual Revelations: Inside-Out Plots Chance. 23: 57-62. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2010.10739825  0.33
2010 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Schrödinger's Cat and the Conception of Probability in Item Response Theory Chance. 23: 53-56. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2010.10739793  0.33
2009 Wainer H, Baldwin P. Visual Revelations: A Little Ignorance: How Statistics Rescued a Damsel in Distress Chance. 22: 51-55. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2009.10722971  0.35
2009 Wainer H, Larsen M. Visual Revelations: Pictures at an Exhibition Chance. 22: 46-54. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2009.10722958  0.33
2009 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: A Centenary Celebration for Will Burtin: A Pioneer of Scientific Visualization Chance. 22: 51-55. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2009.10722947  0.333
2009 Wainer H. A centenary celebration for Will Burtin: A pioneer of scientific visualization Chance. 22: 51-55. DOI: 10.1007/S144-009-0008-Z  0.308
2008 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Improving Graphic Displays by Controlling Creativity Chance. 21: 46-52. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2008.10722903  0.315
2008 Wainer H, Savage S. Visual Revelations: Until Proven Guilty: False Positives and the War on Terror Chance. 21: 55-58. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2008.10722887  0.318
2007 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Improving Data Displays: Ours and the Media's Chance. 20: 8-15. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2007.10722855  0.332
2007 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Galton's Normal Is Too Platykurtic Chance. 20: 57-58. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2007.10722848  0.33
2007 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Insignificant Is Not Zero: Rescoring the SAT as an Example Chance. 20: 55-58. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2007.10722833  0.336
2006 Wainer H, Gessaroli M, Verdi M. Visual Revelations: Finding What Is Not There through the Unfortunate Binning of Results: The Mendel Effect Chance. 19: 49-52. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2006.10722771  0.335
2005 Spence I, Wainer H. William playfair and his graphical inventions: An excerpt from the introduction to the republication of his Atlas and statistical breviary American Statistician. 59: 224-229. DOI: 10.1198/000313005X54216  0.514
2005 Wainer H, Wang XA, Skorupski WP, Bradlow ET. A Bayesian method for evaluating passing scores: The PPoP curve Journal of Educational Measurement. 42: 271-281. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-3984.2005.00014.X  0.318
2005 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Truth Is Slower Than Fiction: Francis Galton as an Illustration Chance. 18: 52-54. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2005.10722756  0.313
2005 Wainer H, Vasilescu D. Visual Revelations: Old Mother Hubbard and the United Nations: an Adventure in Exploratory Data Analysis Chance. 18: 38-45. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2005.10722735  0.318
2005 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Stumbling on the Path toward the Visual Communication of Complexity Chance. 18: 53-54. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2005.10722722  0.309
2004 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Curbstoning IQ and the 2000 Presidential Election Chance. 17: 43-46. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2004.10554925  0.337
2004 Wainer H, Friendly M. Visual Revelations: Nobody's Perfect Chance. 17: 48-51. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2004.10554902  0.334
2004 Wainer H, Braun H. Visual Revelations: Numbers and the Remembrance of Things Past Chance. 17: 44-48. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2004.10554887  0.332
2004 Wang X, Bradlow ET, Wainer H. User'S Guide For Scoright (Version 3.0): A Computer Program For Scoring Tests Built Of Testlets Including A Module For Covariate Analysis Ets Research Report Series. 2004: 59. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.2004.Tb01976.X  0.318
2003 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: A Political Statistic Chance. 16: 45-47. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2003.10554875  0.337
2003 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: A Graphical Legacy of Charles Joseph Minard: Two Jewels from the Past Chance. 16: 58-62. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2003.10554840  0.337
2002 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: The BK-Plot: Making Simpson's Paradox Clear to the Masses Chance. 15: 60-62. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2002.10554815  0.309
2002 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Reporting Test Results to Institutions and Nations Chance. 15: 58-61. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2002.10542333  0.349
2002 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Clear Thinking Made Visible: Redesigning Score Reports for Students Chance. 15: 56-58. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2002.10542316  0.31
2002 Wang X, Bradlow ET, Wainer H. A general Bayesian model for testlets: Theory and applications Applied Psychological Measurement. 26: 109-128. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.2002.Tb01869.X  0.337
2001 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Order in the Court Chance. 14: 43-46. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2001.10542269  0.316
2001 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: New Tools for Exploratory Data Analysis: III. Smoothing and Nearness Engines Chance. 14: 43-46. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2001.10542252  0.307
2001 Wang X, Bradlow ET, Wainer H. User'S Guide For Scoright (Version 1.2): A Computer Program For Scoring Tests Built Of Testlets Ets Research Report Series. 2001. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.2001.Tb01848.X  0.315
2000 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: New Tools for Exploratory Data Analysis: I. Automating Two-Way Table Decomposition Chance. 13: 43-47. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2000.10542221  0.336
2000 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Testing the Disabled: Using Statistics to Navigate between the Scylla of Standards and the Charybdis of Court Decisions Chance. 13: 42-44. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2000.10542207  0.339
2000 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Kelley's Paradox Chance. 13: 47-48. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2000.10542192  0.333
2000 Wainer H, Wang X. Using a new statistical model for testlets to score TOEFL Journal of Educational Measurement. 37: 203-220. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.2001.Tb01851.X  0.309
2000 Wainer H, Sheehan KM, Wang X. Some paths toward making praxis scores more useful Journal of Educational Measurement. 37: 113-140. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1998.Tb01793.X  0.312
1999 Wainer H, Hambleton RK, Meara K. Alternative displays for communicating naep results: A redesign and validity study Journal of Educational Measurement. 36: 301-335. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-3984.1999.Tb00559.X  0.342
1999 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: A Puzzle Solved? Chance. 12: 42-43. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1999.10542141  0.322
1999 Wainer H. Comparing The Incomparable: An Essay On The Importance Of Big Assumptions And Scant Evidence Ets Research Report Series. 1999. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1999.Tb01823.X  0.316
1999 Bradlow ET, Wainer H, Wang X. A Bayesian random effects model for testlets Psychometrika. 64: 153-168. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1998.Tb01752.X  0.309
1997 Li H, Wainer H. Teacher’s Corner: Toward a Coherent View of Reliability in Test Theory: Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 22: 478-484. DOI: 10.3102/10769986022004478  0.319
1997 Wainer H. Improving Tabular Displays, with NAEP Tables as Examples and Inspirations Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 22: 1-30. DOI: 10.3102/10769986022001001  0.301
1997 Wainer H, Lukhele R. How reliable are TOEFL scores? Educational and Psychological Measurement. 57: 741-758. DOI: 10.1177/0013164497057005002  0.313
1997 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Who Was Playfair? Chance. 10: 35-37. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1997.10554796  0.328
1997 Spence I, Wainer H. William Playfair: A Daring Worthless Fellow Chance. 10: 31-34. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1997.10554795  0.484
1997 Li H, Wainer H. Toward a coherent view of reliability in test theory Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 22: 478-484. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1998.Tb01751.X  0.319
1997 Wainer H, Lukhele R. How Reliable Is The Toefl Test Ets Research Report Series. 1997: 23. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1997.Tb01729.X  0.311
1997 Wainer H, Lukhele R. Managing the Influence of DIF from Big Items: The 1988 Advanced Placement History Test as an Example Applied Measurement in Education. 10: 201-215. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1996.Tb01699.X  0.317
1996 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Why Playfair? Chance. 9: 43-52. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1996.10555002  0.328
1996 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Scaling the Heights (and Widths) Chance. 9: 43-49. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1996.10542499  0.315
1996 Wainer H, Bradlow ET. On The Consequences Of Some Test Rescoring Policies Ets Research Report Series. 1996. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1996.Tb01714.X  0.304
1995 Wainer H. Precision and Differential Item Functioning on a Testlet-Based Test: The 199 1 Law School Admissions Test as an Example Applied Measurement in Education. 8: 157-186. DOI: 10.1207/S15324818Ame0802_4  0.31
1995 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: A Rose by Another Name Chance. 8: 46-51. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1995.10542461  0.329
1994 Lukhele R, Thissen D, Wainer H. On the Relative Value of Multiple-Choice, Constructed Response, and Examinee-Selected Items on Two Achievement Tests Journal of Educational Measurement. 31: 234-250. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-3984.1994.Tb00445.X  0.307
1994 Wainer H, Wang X‐, Thissen D. How Well Can We Compare Scores on Test Forms That Are Constructed by Examinees Choice Journal of Educational Measurement. 31: 183-199. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-3984.1994.Tb00442.X  0.334
1994 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Visual Aids When Comparing an Apple to the Stars Chance. 7: 50-53. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1994.10542428  0.325
1994 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Todai Moto Kurashi Chance. 7: 46-49. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1994.10542414  0.331
1993 Wainer H, Thissen D. Combining Multiple-choice and Constructed-Response Test Scores: Toward a Marxist Theory of Test construction Applied Measurement in Education. 6: 103-118. DOI: 10.1207/S15324818Ame0602_1  0.314
1993 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Graphical Answers to Scientific Questions Chance. 6: 48-50. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1993.10542398  0.348
1993 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Tabular Presentation Chance. 6: 52-56. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1993.10542379  0.329
1993 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Making Readable Overhead Displays Chance. 6: 46-49. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1993.10542364  0.328
1993 Lukhele R, Thissen D, Wainer H. On The Relative Value Of Multiple‐Choice, Constructed‐Response, And Examinee‐Selected Items On Two Achievement Tests1 Ets Research Report Series. 1993: 24. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1993.Tb01517.X  0.322
1992 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Sense-Lining Chance. 5: 71-72. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1992.10554990  0.302
1992 Wainer H, Thissen D. Choosing: A Test1 Ets Research Report Series. 1992. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1992.Tb01498.X  0.33
1991 Wainer H. The Isthmus of Acceptance: A Graphical Tool for Function-Based Item Analysis and Test Construction Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 16: 109-124. DOI: 10.3102/10769986016002109  0.335
1991 Wainer H. Visual Revelations: Elegance, Grace, Impact, and Graphical Displays Chance. 4: 45-47. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.1991.10542347  0.322
1991 Wainer H, Sireci SG, Thissen D. DIFFERENTIAL TESTLET FUNCTIONING DEFINITIONS AND DETECTION Ets Research Report Series. 1991: i-42. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1991.Tb01388.X  0.323
1990 Wainer H, Lewis C, Kaplan B, Braswell J. An Adaptive Algebra Test: A Testlet‐Based, Hierarchically‐Structured Test With Validity‐Based Scoring§ Ets Research Report Series. 1990. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1990.Tb01357.X  0.317
1987 Wainer H, Kiely GL. Item Clusters and Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Case for Testlets Journal of Educational Measurement. 24: 185-201. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-3984.1987.Tb00274.X  0.321
1986 Wainer H. Can A Test Be Too Reliable Journal of Educational Measurement. 23: 171-173. DOI: 10.1111/J.1745-3984.1986.Tb00243.X  0.302
1985 Wainer H. Can A Test Be Too Reliable Ets Research Report Series. 1985. DOI: 10.1002/J.2330-8516.1985.Tb00104.X  0.302
1984 Wainer H, Wadkins JRJ, Rogers A. Was There One Distractor Too Many Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 9: 5-24. DOI: 10.3102/10769986009001005  0.333
1983 Wainer H. Pyramid power: Searching for an error in test scoring with 830,000 helpers American Statistician. 37: 87-91. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1981.Tb01262.X  0.311
1982 Braun HI, Wainer H. Making Essay Test Scores Fairer With Statistics Ets Research Report Series. 1982. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1982.Tb01328.X  0.319
1981 Wainer H. Are We Correcting For Guessing In The Wrong Direction Ets Research Report Series. 1981: 63-80. DOI: 10.1002/J.2333-8504.1981.Tb01286.X  0.323
1974 Wainer H. The suspended rootogram and other visual displays: An empirical validation American Statistician. 28: 143-145. DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1974.10479098  0.354
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