Encyclopedia of Psychology Alan E. Kazdin, PhD, Editor-in-Chief
PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY
...Many members of the society have been awarded grants for psychometric research from different federal and local agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as from the military and industry. Notably, the Office of Naval Research awarded sizable grant money to researchers developing item response theory and its applications to computerized adaptive testing from the second half of 1970s until the first half of 1990s.
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