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Plieninger, Hansjörg; Meiser, Thorsten – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Response styles, the tendency to respond to Likert-type items irrespective of content, are a widely known threat to the reliability and validity of self-report measures. However, it is still debated how to measure and control for response styles such as extreme responding. Recently, multiprocess item response theory models have been proposed that…
Descriptors: Validity, Item Response Theory, Rating Scales, Models
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Waugh, Russell F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2001
Developed a multifaceted, hierarchical self-concept scale and used the Rasch model to analyze data from 400 Australian college students. Results support a multifaceted, hierarchical model of self-concept, with ideal and real aspects making an unequal contribution as an ordered unidimensional latent trait. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Measures (Individuals)
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Tracey, Danielle K.; Craven, Rhonda G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Confirmatory factor analysis of responses by 211 preadolescents (M age = 10.25 years,SD = 1.48) with mild intellectual disabilities (MIDs) to the individually administered Self Description Questionnaire I-Individual Administration (SDQI-IA) counters widely cited claims that these children cannot differentiate multiple self-concept factors. Results…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Self Concept, Preadolescents, Mild Mental Retardation