The Modern Theory of Measurement (Theory, Rush Model)

Abstract

Measurement has several purposes in the psychological and educational sciences,
measurement tools, especially tests and measurements have different purposes such as
achievement, progress, classification, supervision, guidance and setting standards and other
purposes, There are many criteria used to select items Measurement tools. The vast majority of
these standards stemmed from traditional or classical concepts of measurement, While the modern
theory of measurement, or what is known as the item response theory to the paragraph a new
scientific framework and close to the selection of items at the present time, and address many of the
issues of education and psychological more effective than the traditional theory. Thus, this
theoretical study dealt with the two most important trends in the field of psychological
measurement. It presented the following elements: the transition from classical to modern theory,
classical theory and basic assumptions, modern theory and its most important principles