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Kreitchmann, Rodrigo S.; Sorrel, Miguel A.; Abad, Francisco J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Multidimensional forced-choice (FC) questionnaires have been consistently found to reduce the effects of socially desirable responding and faking in noncognitive assessments. Although FC has been considered problematic for providing ipsative scores under the classical test theory, item response theory (IRT) models enable the estimation of…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Questionnaires, Social Desirability, Adaptive Testing
Shields, W. S. – 1974
A procedure for predicting categorical outcomes using categorical predictor variables was described by Moonan. This paper describes a related technique which uses prior probabilities, updated by joint likelihoods, as classification criteria. The procedure differs from Moonan's in that the outcome having the greatest posterior probability is…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Behavioral Science Research, Classification, Higher Education