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Raykov, Tenko; Marcoulides, George A.; Li, Tenglong – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
The measurement error in principal components extracted from a set of fallible measures is discussed and evaluated. It is shown that as long as one or more measures in a given set of observed variables contains error of measurement, so also does any principal component obtained from the set. The error variance in any principal component is shown…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Factor Analysis, Research Methodology, Psychometrics
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Fives, Allyn; Canavan, John; Dolan, Pat – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
There is significant controversy over what counts as evidence in the evaluation of social interventions. It is increasingly common to use methodological criteria to rank evidence types in a hierarchy, with Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) at or near the highest level. Because of numerous challenges to a hierarchical approach, this article…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Ethics
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Schneider, W. Joel – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
Researchers often argue that the structural models of the constructs they study are relevant to clinicians. Unfortunately, few clinicians are able to translate the mathematically precise relationships between latent constructs and observed scores into information that can be usefully applied to individuals. Typically this means that when a new…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Psychological Studies, Cognitive Ability, Test Reliability
Messick, Samuel – 1994
The traditional concept of validity divides it into three separate types; content, criterion, and construct validities. This view is fragmented and incomplete, failing to take into account evidence of the value implications of score meaning as a basis for action and of the social consequences of score use. The new unified concept of validity…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Criteria, Educational Assessment, Hypothesis Testing
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Rushton, J. Philippe; Cvorovic, Jelena; Bons, Trudy Ann – Intelligence, 2007
To examine whether the Roma (Gypsy) population of Serbia, like other South Asian population groups, average lower than Europeans on "g", the general factor of intelligence, we tested 323 16- to 66-year-olds (111 males; 212 females) in three different communities over a two-year-period on the Raven's Colored and/or Standard Progressive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Intelligence, Ethnic Groups
Creighton, Theodore B.; Coleman, Donald G.; Adams, R. C. – 1997
A continuing and vexing problem associated with survey instrument development is the creation of items, initially, that correlate favorably a posteriori with constructs being measured. This study tests the use of symbolic-logic matrices developed by D. G. Coleman (1979) in creating factorially "pure" statistically discrete constructs in…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Factor Structure, Mathematical Logic, Matrices
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Boik, Robert J. – Psychometrika, 1988
Both doubly multivariate and multivariate mixed models of analyzing repeated measures on multivariate responses are reviewed. Given multivariate normality, a condition called multivariate sphericity of the covariance matrix is both necessary and sufficient for the validity of the multivariate mixed model analysis. (SLD)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematical Models, Matrices
Beasley, T. Mark; Leitner, Dennis W. – 1994
The use of stepwise regression has been criticized for both interpretive misunderstandings and statistical aberrations. A major statistical problem with stepwise regression and other procedures that involve multiple significance tests is the inflation of the Type I error rate. General approaches to control the family-wise error rate such as the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Simulation, Correlation, Error of Measurement
Tatsuoka, Kikumi K.; Tatsuoka, Maurice M. – 1992
Results of cognitive diagnoses were validated using the rule-space model, and the usefulness of cognitive diagnosis for instruction was demonstrated. Through preliminary studies, 33 stages of knowledge were defined as cognitive diagnoses to be applied to results from a test of knowledge about fractions of seventh and eighth graders (initial test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Fractions, Junior High School Students
Sireci, Stephen G.; Geisinger, Kurt – 1993
Various methods used to assess the content of a test are reviewed, and a new procedure designed to improve on these methods is presented. The two tests considered are a professional licensure examination, the auditing section of the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination, and an educational achievement test, a nationally standardized…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Certified Public Accountants, Cluster Analysis, Content Analysis