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Direct linkMenold, Natalja; Raykov, Tenko – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
The possible dependency of criterion validity on item formulation in a multicomponent measuring instrument is examined. The discussion is concerned with evaluation of the differences in criterion validity between two or more groups (populations/subpopulations) that have been administered instruments with items having differently formulated item…
Descriptors: Test Items, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Difficulty Level
Robie, Chet; Meade, Adam W.; Risavy, Stephen D.; Rasheed, Sabah – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
The effects of different response option orders on survey responses have been studied extensively. The typical research design involves examining the differences in response characteristics between conditions with the same item stems and response option orders that differ in valence--either incrementally arranged (e.g., strongly disagree to…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Psychometrics, Surveys, Responses
Mansolf, Maxwell; Vreeker, Annabel; Reise, Steven P.; Freimer, Nelson B.; Glahn, David C.; Gur, Raquel E.; Moore, Tyler M.; Pato, Carlos N.; Pato, Michele T.; Palotie, Aarno; Holm, Minna; Suvisaari, Jaana; Partonen, Timo; Kieseppä, Tuula; Paunio, Tiina; Boks, Marco; Kahn, René; Ophoff, Roel A.; Bearden, Carrie E.; Loohuis, Loes Olde; Teshiba, Terri; deGeorge, Daniella; Bilder, Robert M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
Large-scale studies spanning diverse project sites, populations, languages, and measurements are increasingly important to relate psychological to biological variables. National and international consortia already are collecting and executing mega-analyses on aggregated data from individuals, with different measures on each person. In this…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Data Analysis, Measurement, Validity
Stoevenbelt, Andrea H.; Wicherts, Jelte M.; Flore, Paulette C.; Phillips, Lorraine A. T.; Pietschnig, Jakob; Verschuere, Bruno; Voracek, Martin; Schwabe, Inga – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
When cognitive and educational tests are administered under time limits, tests may become speeded and this may affect the reliability and validity of the resulting test scores. Prior research has shown that time limits may create or enlarge gender gaps in cognitive and academic testing. On average, women complete fewer items than men when a test…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Gender Differences, Item Response Theory, Correlation
Deribo, Tobias; Goldhammer, Frank; Kroehne, Ulf – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
As researchers in the social sciences, we are often interested in studying not directly observable constructs through assessments and questionnaires. But even in a well-designed and well-implemented study, rapid-guessing behavior may occur. Under rapid-guessing behavior, a task is skimmed shortly but not read and engaged with in-depth. Hence, a…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Guessing (Tests), Behavior Patterns, Bias
Wang, Yan; Kim, Eun Sook; Dedrick, Robert F.; Ferron, John M.; Tan, Tony – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Wording effects associated with positively and negatively worded items have been found in many scales. Such effects may threaten construct validity and introduce systematic bias in the interpretation of results. A variety of models have been applied to address wording effects, such as the correlated uniqueness model and the correlated traits and…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Format, Correlation, Construct Validity
Raykov, Tenko; Marcoulides, George A.; Dimitrov, Dimiter M.; Li, Tatyana – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
This article extends the procedure outlined in the article by Raykov, Marcoulides, and Tong for testing congruence of latent constructs to the setting of binary items and clustering effects. In this widely used setting in contemporary educational and psychological research, the method can be used to examine if two or more homogeneous…
Descriptors: Tests, Psychometrics, Test Items, Construct Validity
von Davier, Matthias; Tyack, Lillian; Khorramdel, Lale – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Automated scoring of free drawings or images as responses has yet to be used in large-scale assessments of student achievement. In this study, we propose artificial neural networks to classify these types of graphical responses from a TIMSS 2019 item. We are comparing classification accuracy of convolutional and feed-forward approaches. Our…
Descriptors: Scoring, Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Elementary Secondary Education
Fu, Yuanshu; Wen, Zhonglin; Wang, Yang – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
The maximal reliability of a congeneric measure is achieved by weighting item scores to form the optimal linear combination as the total score; it is never lower than the composite reliability of the measure when measurement errors are uncorrelated. The statistical method that renders maximal reliability would also lead to maximal criterion…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Comparative Analysis, Attitude Measures
Kam, Chester Chun Seng – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
To measure the response style of acquiescence, researchers recommend the use of at least 15 items with heterogeneous content. Such an approach is consistent with its theoretical definition and is a substantial improvement over traditional methods. Nevertheless, measurement of acquiescence can be enhanced by two additional considerations: first, to…
Descriptors: Test Items, Response Style (Tests), Test Content, Measurement
Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Zhou, Mingming – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
Previous research has found the effects of acquiescence to be generally consistent across item "aggregates" within a single survey (i.e., essential tau-equivalence), but it is unknown whether this phenomenon is consistent at the" individual item" level. This article evaluated the often assumed but inadequately tested…
Descriptors: Test Items, Surveys, Criteria, Correlation
Dimitrov, Dimiter M.; Raykov, Tenko; AL-Qataee, Abdullah Ali – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
This article is concerned with developing a measure of general academic ability (GAA) for high school graduates who apply to colleges, as well as with the identification of optimal weights of the GAA indicators in a linear combination that yields a composite score with maximal reliability and maximal predictive validity, employing the framework of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, High School Students
Sideridis, Georgios D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
The purpose of the present studies was to test the hypothesis that the psychometric characteristics of ability scales may be significantly distorted if one accounts for emotional factors during test taking. Specifically, the present studies evaluate the effects of anxiety and motivation on the item difficulties of the Rasch model. In Study 1, the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Thomas, Troy D.; Abts, Koen; Vander Weyden, Patrick – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
This article investigates the effect of the rural-urban divide on mean response styles (RSs) and their relationships with the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents. It uses the Representative Indicator Response Style Means and Covariance Structure (RIRSMACS) method and data from Guyana--a developing country in the Caribbean. The…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Response Style (Tests), Demography, Social Characteristics
Curseu, Petru Lucian; Schruijer, Sandra G. L. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2012
This study investigates the relationship between the five decision-making styles evaluated by the General Decision-Making Style Inventory, indecisiveness, and rationality in decision making. Using a sample of 102 middle-level managers, the results show that the rational style positively predicts rationality in decision making and negatively…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Measures (Individuals), Predictive Validity, Middle Management
