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Partchev, Ivailo – Journal of Intelligence, 2020
We analyze a 12-item version of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices test, traditionally scored with the sum score. We discuss some important differences between assessment in practice and psychometric modelling. We demonstrate some advanced diagnostic tools in the freely available R package, dexter. We find that the first item in the test…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Scores, Psychometrics, Diagnostic Tests
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Forthmann, Boris; Förster, Natalie; Schütze, Birgit; Hebbecker, Karin; Flessner, Janis; Peters, Martin T.; Souvignier, Elmar – Journal of Intelligence, 2020
Distractors might display discriminatory power with respect to the construct of interest (e.g., intelligence), which was shown in recent applications of nested logit models to the short-form of Raven's progressive matrices and other reasoning tests. In this vein, a simulation study was carried out to examine two effect size measures (i.e., a…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Intelligence Tests
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Nouwens, Suzan; Groen, Margriet A.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Working memory is considered a well-established predictor of individual variation in reading comprehension in children and adults. However, how storage and processing capacities of working memory in both the phonological and semantic domain relate to reading comprehension is still unclear. In the current study, we investigated the contribution of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Phonological Awareness