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Yongze Xu – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
The questionnaire method has always been an important research method in psychology. The increasing prevalence of multidimensional trait measures in psychological research has led researchers to use longer questionnaires. However, questionnaires that are too long will inevitably reduce the quality of the completed questionnaires and the efficiency…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Questionnaires, Generalization, Simulation
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Lin, Yin; Brown, Anna – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
A fundamental assumption in computerized adaptive testing is that item parameters are invariant with respect to context--items surrounding the administered item. This assumption, however, may not hold in forced-choice (FC) assessments, where explicit comparisons are made between items included in the same block. We empirically examined the…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Measurement Techniques, Context Effect, Test Items
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Egberink, Iris J. L.; Meijer, Rob R.; Tendeiro, Jorge N. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
A popular method to assess measurement invariance of a particular item is based on likelihood ratio tests with all other items as anchor items. The results of this method are often only reported in terms of statistical significance, and researchers proposed different methods to empirically select anchor items. It is unclear, however, how many…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Computer Assisted Testing, Measurement, Test Items
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Huba, G. J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
The runs test for random sequences of responding is proposed for application in long inventories with dichotomous items as an index of sterotyped responding. This index is useful for detecting whether the client shifts between response alternatives more or less frequently than would be expected by chance. (LMO)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Personality Measures, Response Style (Tests), Scoring
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Clopton, James R.; Neuringer, Charles – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977
A set of computer programs, which performs necessary item analysis and related procedures for developing new scales for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, is described. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Item Analysis, Measurement Techniques
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Sukigara, Masune – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1996
The New Japanese version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was administered twice to 200 Japanese female college students to verify the equivalence of the computer- and booklet-administered formats. For four scales, scores from the computer version were statistically significantly higher than those from the booklet…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Females, Foreign Countries
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Miles, Edward W.; King, Wesley C., Jr. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1998
Whether gender and administration mode (computer versus pencil and paper) influenced mean scores on four noncognitive psychological instruments was studied with 874 undergraduates. Results show no statistically significant interaction between gender and administration mode, although statistically significant main effects were found for both gender…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Testing, Higher Education, Personality Assessment
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Davis, Caroline; Cowles, Michael – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1989
Computerized and paper-and-pencil versions of four standard personality inventories administered to 147 undergraduates were compared for: (1) test-retest reliability; (2) scores; (3) trait anxiety; (4) interaction between method and social desirability; and (5) preferences concerning method of testing. Doubts concerning the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Personality Measures