"Technical and practical issues in equating: A discussion of four papers": Reply

Abstract

We would like to thank Angoff (1987) for his thoughtful and extensive review of the Kolen and Brennan (1987) and Brennan and Kolen (1987) papers. His comments were very helpful to us in clarifying our thinking about a number of issues. Although we find ourselves in agreement with most of his comments, there are two issues that we believe merit further consideration-synthetic population weights and the circular equating paradigm. In retrospect, our initial discussion of these topics probably should have been more extensive. We hope that the following reply will clarify our position with respect to these two issues.