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The Effect of Serial Position On Ranking Error

University of Akron

Thomas O. Hoover

University of Akron

Using words of known selection values arranged in completely counterbalanced order it was possible to show that over-ranking tends to occur at both terminal points of a series of rankings. The presence of other unforeseen "ranking errors" was noted, suggesting that errors arising out of ranking procedures may be more complex than hitherto suspected.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 34, No. 2, 289-293 (1974)
DOI: 10.1177/001316447403400209


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