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Bostic, Jonathan David – Applied Measurement in Education, 2021
Think alouds are valuable tools for academicians, test developers, and practitioners as they provide a unique window into a respondent's thinking during an assessment. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight novel ways to use think alouds as a means to gather evidence about respondents' thinking. An intended outcome from this special…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Data Collection, STEM Education
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Eseryel, Deniz; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Ge, Xun – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
The important but little understood problem that motivated this study was the lack of research on valid assessment methods to determine progress in higher-order learning in situations involving complex and ill-structured problems. Without a valid assessment method, little progress can occur in instructional design research with regard to designing…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Computer Games, Educational Games, Web Based Instruction
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Keeley, Jared W.; English, Taylor; Irons, Jessica; Henslee, Amber M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2013
Many measurement biases affect student evaluations of instruction (SEIs). However, two have been relatively understudied: halo effects and ceiling/floor effects. This study examined these effects in two ways. To examine the halo effect, using a videotaped lecture, we manipulated specific teacher behaviors to be "good" or "bad"…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Test Bias, Course Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Gierl, Mark J.; Wang, Changjiang; Zhou, Jiawen – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2008
The purpose of this study is to apply the attribute hierarchy method (AHM) to a sample of SAT algebra items administered in March 2005. The AHM is a psychometric method for classifying examinees' test item responses into a set of structured attribute patterns associated with different components from a cognitive model of task performance. An…
Descriptors: Test Items, Protocol Analysis, Psychometrics, Algebra
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Strong, David R.; Glassmire, David M.; Frederick, Richard I.; Greene, Roger L. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
P. A. Arbisi and Y. S. Ben-Porath (1995) originally proposed that the Infrequency Psychopathology scale, F(p), be used as the final step in an algorithm to determine the validity of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) protocol. The current study used taxometric procedures to determine the latent structure of F(p) among…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Validity, Psychopathology, Measures (Individuals)
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Swanson, Jane L.; Gore, Paul A., Jr.; Leuwerke, Wade; D'Achiardi, Catalina; Edwards, Jorie Hitch; Edwards, Jared – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2006
Rates of accurate recall of the Strong Interest Inventory (SII; L. W. Harmon, J. C. Hansen, F. H. Borgen, & A. L. Hammer, 1994) profile information varied with the amount of time elapsed since the interpretation, the type of SII scale, and whether immediate recall was elicited, but rates did not vary with the strategy used to provide the…
Descriptors: Intervals, Interest Inventories, Recall (Psychology), Item Analysis