Measurement Models For Psychological Attributes

Author : Klaas Sijtsma
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439881367
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measurement Models for Psychological Attributes written by Klaas Sijtsma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the overwhelming use of tests and questionnaires, the psychometric models for constructing these instruments are often poorly understood, leading to suboptimal measurement. Measurement Models for Psychological Attributes is a comprehensive and accessible treatment of the common and the less than common measurement models for the social, behavioral, and health sciences. The monograph explains the adequate use of measurement models for test construction, points out their merits and drawbacks, and critically discusses topics that have raised and continue to raise controversy. Because introductory texts on statistics and psychometrics are sufficient to understand its content, the monograph may be used in advanced courses on applied psychometrics, and is attractive to both researchers and graduate students in psychology, education, sociology, political science, medicine and marketing, policy research, and opinion research. The monograph provides an in-depth discussion of classical test theory and factor models in Chapter 2; nonparametric and parametric item response theory in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, respectively; latent class models and cognitive diagnosis models in Chapter 5; and discusses pairwise comparison models, proximity models, response time models, and network psychometrics in Chapter 6. The chapters start with the theory and methods of the measurement model and conclude with a real-data example illustrating the measurement model.

Author : Denny Borsboom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139444638
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring the Mind written by Denny Borsboom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to measure psychological attributes like intelligence, personality and attitudes and if so, how does that work? What does the term 'measurement' mean in a psychological context? This fascinating and timely book discusses these questions and investigates the possible answers that can be given response. Denny Borsboom provides an in-depth treatment of the philosophical foundations of widely used measurement models in psychology. The theoretical status of classical test theory, latent variable theory and positioned in terms of the underlying philosophy of science. Special attention is devoted to the central concept of test validity and future directions to improve the theory and practice of psychological measurement are outlined.

Author : Dustin Wood
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128192011
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations written by Dustin Wood and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations presents major innovations and contributions on the topic, promoting deeper integration, cross-pollination of ideas across diverse academic disciplines, and the facilitation of the development of practical applications such as matching people to jobs, understanding decision making, and predicting how a group of individuals will interact with one another. The book is organized around two overarching and interrelated themes, with the first focusing on assessing the person and the situation, covering methodological advances and techniques for inferring and measuring characteristics, and showing how they can be instantiated for measurement and predictive purposes. The book's second theme presents theoretical models, conceptualizing how factors of the person and situation can help us understand the psychological dynamics which underlie behavior, the psychological experience of fit or congruence with one’s environment, and changes in personality traits over time. Identifies technologies for measuring and predicting behavior Infers behavior causes from personality and/or situational variables Utilizes big data, machine learning and modeling to understand behavior Includes mobile phone, social media and wearable tech usage analysis Explores the stability of personality over time Considers behavior analysis to treat maladaptive behavior

Author : W. Holmes Finch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317308581
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educational and Psychological Measurement written by W. Holmes Finch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new text provides the most current coverage of measurement and psychometrics in a single volume. Authors W. Holmes Finch and Brian F. French first review the basics of psychometrics and measurement, before moving on to more complex topics such as equating and scaling, item response theory, standard setting, and computer adaptive testing. Also included are discussions of cutting-edge topics utilized by practitioners in the field, such as automated test development, game-based assessment, and automated test scoring. This book is ideal for use as a primary text for graduate-level psychometrics/measurement courses, as well as for researchers in need of a broad resource for understanding test theory. Features: "How it Works" and "Psychometrics in the Real World" boxes break down important concepts through worked examples, and show how theory can be applied to practice. End-of-chapter exercises allow students to test their comprehension of the material, while suggested readings and website links provide resources for further investigation. A collection of free online resources include the full output from R, SPSS, and Excel for each of the analyses conducted in the book, as well as additional exercises, sample homework assignments, answer keys, and PowerPoint lecture slides.

Author : Wahyu Widhiarso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applying Structural Equation Modelling to Tested Measurement Model of Psychological Measure written by Wahyu Widhiarso and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study tested measurement model of psychological attributes through structural equation modelling (SEM). Classical test theory divided measurement model into four: parallel, tau equivalent, congeneric and error-correlated. Parallel and tau equivalent model assumed that each of items in scale to measure had an equal amount of measure and error, whereas congeneric model assumed that each item has a different amount of both properties. Most measurements in psychological testing employ parallel and tau equivalent model since Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to estimate psychometric properties of measurement. Presumptions of parallel and tau equivalent are difficult to be met since items to measure represent a dynamic and complex human behavior. Since its represents a dynamic and complex human behavior, items will be more likely to have different precisely to measure. Authors propose a hypothesis that congeneric and error correlated model fit with data than parallel and tau equivalent model. The instrument was used in this study was (1) Big Five Inventory (BFI-44) which corresponds to personality measurement, (2) Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), which represents the clinical measurements, and (3) Attitudes toward policy changes organizations scale that represents the attitude measurement. BFI-44 and BDI are completed by students (N = 185 and 184) while the attitude scale was completed by employees. Using confirmatory factor analysis techniques through LISREL 8.30 suggest that congeneric and error-correlated model have better goodness of fit indices than parallel and tau-equivalent. In other words, the error correlated and congeneric models were better in representing complexity of item measure than parallel and tau equivalent model. These findings suggest to researchers who develop psychological measurements to: (1) identify a potential differences amount and precise of measures among items in a scale measure with factor analysis before estimating psychometrics properties of measurement (2) using the psychometrics properties that relevant to the measurement model of scale to get accurate estimation.

Author : Susan E. Embretson
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN 13 : 9781433806919
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Psychological Constructs written by Susan E. Embretson and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2010 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a half-century has passed since Cronbachs distinction between the correlational and experimental approaches in psychology. Yet measurement today is not much better integrated with psychological theory than it was in the late 1950s, and many argue that the traditional psychometric model itself may have introduced constraints that have limited the integration of measurement and theory. Measuring Psychological Constructs seeks to break through these constraints by offering conceptual alternatives to traditional item-response theorys fixed-content/multiple-choice models. This edited volumes contributors present groundbreaking explanatory approaches to model-based measurement that provide various psychological constructs with more authentic measures such as constructed-response tasks and performance assessment. These new explanatory approaches not only extend rigorous psychometric methods to a variety of major psychological constructs, but also have the potential to change fundamentally the nature of the constructs that are being measured. Grounded in psychometrics and quantitative assessment, and in the history and major theoretical approaches of psychology, Measuring Psychological Constructs is aimed at students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners alike, in variety of psychology subdisciplines that include developmental and geriatric, industrial/organizational, clinical and counseling, educational, social and personality, experimental, neuropsychology, health and rehabilitation, and quantitative psychology.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309370930
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychological Testing in the Service of Disability Determination written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two disability programs: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), for disabled individuals, and their dependent family members, who have worked and contributed to the Social Security trust funds, and Supplemental Security Income (SSSI), which is a means-tested program based on income and financial assets for adults aged 65 years or older and disabled adults and children. Both programs require that claimants have a disability and meet specific medical criteria in order to qualify for benefits. SSA establishes the presence of a medically-determined impairment in individuals with mental disorders other than intellectual disability through the use of standard diagnostic criteria, which include symptoms and signs. These impairments are established largely on reports of signs and symptoms of impairment and functional limitation. Psychological Testing in the Service of Disability Determination considers the use of psychological tests in evaluating disability claims submitted to the SSA. This report critically reviews selected psychological tests, including symptom validity tests, that could contribute to SSA disability determinations. The report discusses the possible uses of such tests and their contribution to disability determinations. Psychological Testing in the Service of Disability Determination discusses testing norms, qualifications for administration of tests, administration of tests, and reporting results. The recommendations of this report will help SSA improve the consistency and accuracy of disability determination in certain cases.

Author : Wahyu Widhiarso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testing Equality Item's Scale and Precision on the Psychological Scale written by Wahyu Widhiarso and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This purpose of this study was identified which measurement models that appropriate to measure psychological attributes toward psychological scale. Measurement models that included was the parallel, tau-equivalent and konjenerik model. Each model has different assumptions according to each item precision and scale measuring on the psychological scale. As a sample of psychological scale this study use Child Depression Inventory (CDI) and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Data taken from the 3.183 adolescents from junior and senior high school with age range from 15 to 19 years in DIY. Both scale was tested using the Hotelling T2 test for testing the equality of mean and variance and confirmatory factor analysis through structural equation modeling to test the goodness fit of the model. This study found that psychological scales tend to fit with congeneric model than others. Congeneric model was one of the measurement models that assumes every item in a scale has a different precision and scale of measure. Therefore, it's concluded that items in psychological measurements tend to measure psychological attributes in the different amount of measure.

Author : Norman Cliff
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 113569169X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences written by Norman Cliff and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies. It is based on the assumptions of ordinal statistics as explained in Norman Cliff's 1996 Ordinal Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis. It provides the necessary background on ordinal measurement to permit its use to assess psychological and psychophysical tests and scales and interpret the data obtained. The authors believe that some of the behavioral measurement models used today do not fit the data or are inherently self-contradictory. Applications of these models can therefore lead to unwarranted inferences regarding the status of the derived variables. These methods can also be difficult to apply, particularly in small-sample contexts without making additional, unrealistic assumptions. Ordinal methods more closely reflect the original data, are simple to apply, and can be used in samples of any size. The book's approach is in essence a return to simple empiricism in psychological measurement. Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences provides: *methods for analyzing test responses; *extensive discussions of ordinal approaches to analyzing data that are judgments of stimuli; *methods for treating psychological data in ways consistent with its ordinal nature so as to stimulate new developments in this area; and *ordinal test theory and the unfolding methods that are applicable to cross-cultural studies. Advanced students, researchers, and practitioners concerned with psychological measurement should find this book relevant. Measurement professionals will find it provides useful and simple methods that stimulate thought about measurement's real issues.

Author : L. Andries van der Ark
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303110370X
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Contemporary Psychometrics written by L. Andries van der Ark and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 'Essays on Contemporary Psychometrics' provides an overview of contemporary psychometrics, the science devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education and the social sciences. The volume consists of four parts, each having several chapters on cutting-edge work in the field. Part I, General Perspectives on Psychometrics, includes expert views on topics such as psychological models vs. measurement models, using tests in decision making, artificial intelligence, and psychometric network models. Part II, Factor Analysis and Classical Test Theory, the type of psychometrics that is still used most often in the social and behavioral sciences, includes state-of-the-art contributions on test-score reliability, change-score reliability, handling missing data in principal component analysis, test equating, and conditional standard errors of measurement. Part III, Item Response Theory, the leading form of psychometrics in modern educational measurement, includes discussions of sampling from many conditional distributions, transparent score reporting, nonparametric item response theory, and targeted testing. Part IV, New Psychometrics, discusses recently developed ideas beyond classical test theory and item response theory, including topics related to computer adaptive testing, response-time modelling, validity indices, diagnostic classification models, and the sparse latent class model for ordinal measurements. Together, these four parts provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art in psychometrics in educational measurement. They are a valuable source of information for graduate students who (intend to) study psychometrics and need an overview of the field, and for researchers interested in the current developments in the field. Chapters [3], [5], [8], [16] and [19] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.