TY - JOUR
AU - Ellis, Barbara B.
AB - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TESTING, 1(1), 87–91 Copyright © 2001, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. BOOK REVIEW Rules of Measurement: Out With the Old, in With the New The New Rules of Measurement: What Every Psychologist and Educator Should Know. Susan E. Embretson and Scott L. Hershberger (Eds.), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1999, 263 pages, $69.95, hardback; $32.50, online. Reviewed by Barbara B. Ellis Department of Psychology University of Houston E. G. Boring, editor of Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews, is said to have instructed authors of book reviews to avoid the convention of sim- ply recapitulating the contents of the book’s chapters. Boring reiterated this po- sition in a letter thanking a reviewer for a “mature, well-integrated job that is anything but a catalogue of items about the book(s)” (letter from E. G. Boring to H. D. Kimmel dated January 27, 1961). Given that two reviews of The New Rules of Measurement book have already appeared in other publications (Linacre, 1999; Sireci, 2000), I will attempt to follow Boring’s advice. It is left to the reader to determine if Boring’s advice is sage or not and if this review meets his standard. This edited volume is a 
TI - BOOK REVIEW: Rules of Measurement: Out With the Old, in With the New
JF - International Journal of Testing
DO - 10.1207/S15327574IJT0101_5
DA - 2001-03-01
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SP - 87
EP - 91
VL - 1
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