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Anne Traynor; Sara C. Christopherson – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
Combining methods from earlier content validity and more contemporary content alignment studies may allow a more complete evaluation of the meaning of test scores than if either set of methods is used on its own. This article distinguishes item relevance indices in the content validity literature from test representativeness indices in the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Items, Achievement Tests, Test Construction
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Marcelo Andrade da Silva; A. Corinne Huggins-Manley; Jorge Luis Bazán; Amber Benedict – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
A Q-matrix is a binary matrix that defines the relationship between items and latent variables and is widely used in diagnostic classification models (DCMs), and can also be adopted in multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models. The construction process of the Q-matrix is typically carried out by experts in the subject area of the items…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, Matrices, Item Response Theory, Educational Assessment