Educational and Psychological Measurement articles from February 1998

Educational and Psychological Measurement archives from February 1998

Reliability generalization: exploring variance in measurement error affecting score reliability across studies.
February 1, 1998... It is unfortunately all too common to find authors of education and psychology journal articles describing the "reliability of the test" or stating that "the test is reliable." Such statements contribute to the endemic confusion and...

How well do researchers report their measures? An evaluation of measurement in published educational research.
February 1, 1998... The 1980s witnessed a flurry of efforts to upgrade standards regarding the development and use of measurement instruments in a variety of contexts. In the last half of the decade, joint committees representing several organizations began...

Differentiation as fundamental validity for criterion-group scaled interest inventories.
February 1, 1998... Dawis (1991), in his comprehensive chapter on assessment of interests, remarks on the primacy of predictive validity in establishing the utility of an interest inventory. That is, a large majority of a group that has taken an interest...

Mean centering in moderated multiple regression: much ado about nothing.
February 1, 1998... The analysis of interaction effects between continuous variables in multiple regression has received considerable attention in recent years (e.g., Aiken & West, 1991; Jaccard & Wan, 1995; McClelland & Judd, 1993), although the methodology...

Gender and administration mode effects when pencil-and-paper personality tests are computerized.
February 1, 1998... The computerized administration of noncognitive psychological instruments is increasing in frequency (Booth-Kewley, Edwards, & Rosenfeld, 1992). Computer administration has a number of attractive features, including immediacy of data entry,...

Moderator search in meta-analysis: a review and cautionary note on existing approaches.
February 1, 1998... Meta-analytic searches for moderators or boundary conditions of relationships between variables have increased over the years. Multiple regression and subgroup analysis are die two most common strategies used to search for moderators in a...

Revision of the Sutter-Eyberg student behavior inventory: teacher ratings of conduct problem behavior.
February 1, 1998... According to the American Psychiatric Association's (APA's) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; APA, 1994), the prevalence of conduct disorder (CD) ranges from 4% to 13%, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder...

The development of an instrument for measuring memories of family of origin characteristics.
February 1, 1998... Family of origin characteristics are widely perceived as having a substantial influence on psychosocial development and have been a major focus of theory, research, and intervention ever since the time of Freud's early work. Although not all...

The development of a new measure of global work autonomy.
February 1, 1998... During the past 30 years, the importance of work autonomy has been well established. For example, meta-analyses (e.g., Spector, 1986) have shown self-reports of autonomy to be related to such important variables as employee turnover,...

The Career Success Expectations Scale: an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.
February 1, 1998... In the fields of management and organizational behavior, expectations have played a prominent role in academic research (Mobley, 1982; Organ & Konovsky, 1989; Taylor, 1984). A number of theoretical subspecialties have emerged from the study...

MINSIZE: a computer program for obtaining minimum sample size as an indicator of effect size.
February 1, 1998... Many authors have observed the dependence of the power of a statistical test on the sample size used (assuming fixed alpha level and effect size [ES]). Cohen (1962) brought the matter to the attention of social and behavioral science...

Power calculation for independent samples Hotelling's T2 using PROC IML in SAS. (computer program)
February 1, 1998... The SAS system has been used to program power calculations for independent samples [T.sup.2]. Three programs have been prepared to accommodate variations in the information that may be available to do the power analysis. As is well known,...