equate (someone or something) with (someone or something)

To perceive someone or something as being representative or equivalent to someone or something else. I think I enjoy summer so much because I just equate warm weather with happiness. I often let my kids play with my parents' very docile dog so that they don't equate dogs with fear. Ugh, I still equate that video game with my parents' divorce because that's when I got it.

equate someone or something with someone or something

to compare people and things, in any combination. I tend to equate Tom with trouble. I equate the Johnsons with a long boring evening.

equate

someone to someone else and equate something to something else to claim that someone is in some manner the same as someone else; to claim that something is in some manner the same as something else. I would equate Tom to Wallywhen it comes to native ability. You cannot equate my car to that jalopy you drive!

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This study examines the differences in equating outcomes between two trend score equating designs resulting from two different scoring strategies for trend scoring when operational constructed-response (CR) items are double-scored--the single group (SG) design, where each trend CR item is double-scored, and the nonequivalent groups with anchor test (NEAT) design, where each trend CR item is single-scored during trend score equating--for varying sample sizes (n =150, 200, 250, 300, 400).

Single- versus Double-Scoring of Trend Responses in Trend Score Equating with Constructed-Response Tests. Research Report. ETS RR-10-12

The impact of different anchors on observed score equating were evaluated and compared with respect to systematic error (bias), random equating error (standard errors of equating), and total equating error (RMSE) using empirical data.

The Effects of Different Types of Anchor Tests on Observed Score Equating. Research Report. ETS RR-09-41

This report proposes an empirical Bayes approach to the problem of equating scores on test forms taken by very small numbers of test takers.

Small-Sample Equating with Prior Information. Research Report. ETS RR-09-25

In this paper, we develop a new chained equipercentile equating procedure for the nonequivalent groups with anchor test (NEAT) design under the assumptions of the classical test theory model.

Construction of Chained True Score Equipercentile Equatings under the Kernel Equating (KE) Framework and Their Relationship to Levine True Score Equating. Research Report. ETS RR-09-24

This study investigated kernel equating methods by comparing these methods to operational equatings for two tests in the SAT Subject Tests[TM] program.

An Evaluation of Kernel Equating: Parallel Equating with Classical Methods in the SAT Subject Tests[TM] Program. Research Report. ETS RR-09-06

In this report, an alternative item response theory (IRT) observed score equating method was newly developed.

An Alternative IRT Observed Score Equating Method. CRESST Report 751