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Xuelan Qiu; Jimmy de la Torre; You-Gan Wang; Jinran Wu – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
Multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) items have been found to be useful to reduce response biases in personality assessments. However, conventional scoring methods for the MFC items result in ipsative data, hindering the wider applications of the MFC format. In the last decade, a number of item response theory (IRT) models have been developed,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Personality Assessment
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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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Phelps, LeAdelle – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1994
Provides reviews of computerized scoring and interpretive systems for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2 and MMPI-A): Caldwell Report, the Psychological Assessment Resources MMPI-2 Interpretive System, and the National Computer Systems Programs. Concludes that when used appropriately, such scoring systems enhance a counselor's…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Measures (Individuals), Personality Assessment
Matarazzo, Joseph D. – 1991
As spinoffs of the current revolution in the cognitive and neurosciences, clinical neuropsychologists in the 21st century will be employing biological tests of intelligence and cognition which record individual differences in brain functions at the neuromolecular, neurophysiologic, and neurochemical levels. Assessment of patients will focus more…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Tests
International Personnel Management Association, Washington, DC. – 1988
Author-generated summaries/outlines of papers presented at the annual conference of the International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council (IPMAAC) in 1988 are provided. The "Presidential Address" is by N. E. Abrams. The keynote address is "Is There a Future for Intelligence?" by R. Thorndike. Summaries of 53…
Descriptors: Assessment Centers (Personnel), Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis