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A New Stopping Criterion for Rasch Trees Based on the Mantel-Haenszel Effect Size Measure for Differential Item Functioning. 基于 Mantel-Haenszel 差异项目功能效应大小测量的 Rasch 树新停止标准。

IF 2.1 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/00131644221077135

Mirka Henninger, Rudolf Debelak, Carolin Strobl

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Assessing Essential Unidimensionality of Scales and Structural Coefficient Bias. 评估量表的基本单维性和结构系数偏差。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-02-08 DOI: 10.1177/00131644221075580

Xiaoling Liu, Pei Cao, Xinzhen Lai, Jianbing Wen, Yanyun Yang

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Diagnostic Classification Model for Forced-Choice Items and Noncognitive Tests. 强迫选择项目和非认知测试的诊断分类模型。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/00131644211069906

Hung-Yu Huang

{"title":"Diagnostic Classification Model for Forced-Choice Items and Noncognitive Tests.","authors":"Hung-Yu Huang","doi":"10.1177/00131644211069906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644211069906","url":null,"abstract":"The forced-choice (FC) item formats used for noncognitive tests typically develop a set of response options that measure different traits and instruct respondents to make judgments among these options in terms of their preference to control the response biases that are commonly observed in normative tests. Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) can provide information regarding the mastery status of test takers on latent discrete variables and are more commonly used for cognitive tests employed in educational settings than for noncognitive tests. The purpose of this study is to develop a new class of DCM for FC items under the higher-order DCM framework to meet the practical demands of simultaneously controlling for response biases and providing diagnostic classification information. By conducting a series of simulations and calibrating the model parameters with a Bayesian estimation, the study shows that, in general, the model parameters can be recovered satisfactorily with the use of long tests and large samples. More attributes improve the precision of the second-order latent trait estimation in a long test, but decrease the classification accuracy and the estimation quality of the structural parameters. When statements are allowed to load on two distinct attributes in paired comparison items, the specific-attribute condition produces better a parameter estimation than the overlap-attribute condition. Finally, an empirical analysis related to work-motivation measures is presented to demonstrate the applications and implications of the new model.","PeriodicalId":11502,"journal":{"name":"Educational and Psychological Measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/5c/8c/10.1177_00131644211069906.PMC9806518.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10489721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Using Simulated Annealing to Investigate Sensitivity of SEM to External Model Misspecification. 使用模拟退火法研究 SEM 对外部模型不规范的敏感性。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00131644211073121

Charles L Fisk, Jeffrey R Harring, Zuchao Shen, Walter Leite, King Yiu Suen, Katerina M Marcoulides

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Croon's Bias-Corrected Estimation for Multilevel Structural Equation Models with Non-Normal Indicators and Model Misspecifications. 具有非正态性指标和模型失当的多层次结构方程模型的克罗恩偏差校正估计。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-03-11 DOI: 10.1177/00131644221080451

Kyle Cox, Benjamin Kelcey

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Resolving Dimensionality in a Child Assessment Tool: An Application of the Multilevel Bifactor Model. 解决儿童评估工具中的维度问题：多层次双因素模型的应用。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.1177/00131644221082688

Hope O Akaeze, Frank R Lawrence, Jamie Heng-Chieh Wu

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Power Analysis for Moderator Effects in Longitudinal Cluster Randomized Designs. 纵向聚类随机设计中调节器效应的功率分析》（Power Analysis for Moderator Effects in Longitudinal Cluster Randomized Designs）。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/00131644221077359

Wei Li, Spyros Konstantopoulos

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Performance of Coefficient Alpha and Its Alternatives: Effects of Different Types of Non-Normality. 系数 Alpha 及其替代方法的性能：不同类型非正态性的影响。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-04-11 DOI: 10.1177/00131644221088240

Leifeng Xiao, Kit-Tai Hau

{"title":"Performance of Coefficient Alpha and Its Alternatives: Effects of Different Types of Non-Normality.","authors":"Leifeng Xiao, Kit-Tai Hau","doi":"10.1177/00131644221088240","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00131644221088240","url":null,"abstract":"We examined the performance of coefficient alpha and its potential competitors (ordinal alpha, omega total, Revelle's omega total [omega RT], omega hierarchical [omega h], greatest lower bound [GLB], and coefficient H) with continuous and discrete data having different types of non-normality. Results showed the estimation bias was acceptable for continuous data with varying degrees of non-normality when the scales were strong (high loadings). This bias, however, became quite large with moderate strength scales and increased with increasing non-normality. For Likert-type scales, other than omega h, most indices were acceptable with non-normal data having at least four points, and more points were better. For different exponential distributed data, omega RT and GLB were robust, whereas the bias of other indices for binomial-beta distribution was generally large. An examination of an authentic large-scale international survey suggested that its items were at worst moderately non-normal; hence, non-normality was not a big concern. We recommend (a) the demand for continuous and normally distributed data for alpha may not be necessary for less severely non-normal data; (b) for severely non-normal data, we should have at least four scale points, and more points are better; and (c) there is no single golden standard for all data types, other issues such as scale loading, model structure, or scale length are also important.","PeriodicalId":11502,"journal":{"name":"Educational and Psychological Measurement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9806521/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10489719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bias for Treatment Effect by Measurement Error in Pretest in ANCOVA Analysis. ANCOVA分析中前测测量误差对治疗效果的偏倚。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Epub Date: 2022-01-07 DOI: 10.1177/00131644211068801

Yasuo Miyazaki, Akihito Kamata, Kazuaki Uekawa, Yizhi Sun

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Identifying Ability and Nonability Groups: Incorporating Response Times Using Mixture Modeling. 识别能力和无能力组:结合使用混合建模的响应时间。

IF 2.7 3区心理学

Educational and Psychological Measurement Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Epub Date: 2022-01-20 DOI: 10.1177/00131644211072833

Georgios Sideridis, Ioannis Tsaousis, Khaleel Al-Harbi

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