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Reliability beyond Theory and into Practice
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Sijtsma, Klaas – Psychometrika, 2009
The critical reactions of Bentler (2009, doi: 10.1007/s11336-008-9100-1), Green and Yang (2009a, doi: 10.1007/s11336-008-9098-4 ; 2009b, doi: 10.1007/s11336-008-9099-3), and Revelle and Zinbarg (2009, doi: 10.1007/s11336-008-9102-z) to Sijtsma's (2009, doi: 10.1007/s11336-008-9101-0) paper on Cronbach's alpha are addressed. The dissemination of…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Reliability, Theory Practice Relationship, Structural Equation Models
Psychometrics: From Practice to Theory and Back.
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Stout, William – Psychometrika, 2002
Reviews 15 years of progress in three psychometric research areas: latent dimensionality structure, test fairness, and skills diagnosis through educational tests. Also discusses an effective model for selecting and carrying out research. Describes a new assessment paradigm that embraces skills level formative assessment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Research, Formative Evaluation, Models
Building an Identifiable Latent Class Model with Covariate Effects on Underlying and Measured Variables
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Huang, Guan-Hua; Bandeen-Roche, Karen – Psychometrika, 2004
In recent years, latent class models have proven useful for analyzing relationships between measured multiple indicators and covariates of interest. Such models summarize shared features of the multiple indicators as an underlying categorical variable, and the indicators' substantive associations with predictors are built directly and indirectly…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Theory Practice Relationship, Predictor Variables, Identification