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Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 to Develop a Scale to Identify Test Anxiety among Students with Learning Disabilities
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Lufi, Dubi; Awwad, Abeer – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2013
The purpose of this article was to describe an initial step developing a new scale to identify individuals with learning disabilities (LD) and test anxiety. Eighty-eight students answered the "Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2" (MMPI-2). The participants were drawn from the following three groups: (a) adults with LD and test…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Test Anxiety, Comparative Analysis, Test Validity
User Settings of Cue Thresholds for Binary Categorization Decisions
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Botzer, Assaf; Meyer, Joachim; Bak, Peter; Parmet, Yisrael – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2010
The output of binary cuing systems, such as alerts or alarms, depends on the threshold setting--a parameter that is often user-adjustable. However, it is unknown if users are able to adequately adjust thresholds and what information may help them to do so. Two experiments tested threshold settings for a binary classification task based on binary…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Cues, Test Items, Probability
On Agreement of Diagnostic Classifications from Parallel Subtests: Score Reliability at the Micro Level.
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And Others; Birenbaum, Menucha – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997
The agreement of diagnostic classifications from two parallel subtests assessing a mathematics skill with three levels of scoring was studied with 431 Arab Israeli 10th graders. Results indicate that, even when parallel form reliability is high, less agreement is apparent when performance is evaluated at the micro level. (SLD)
Descriptors: Arabs, Classification, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods