Educational and Psychological Measurement articles from June 1997

Educational and Psychological Measurement archives from June 1997

Generalizability analysis for performance assessments of student achievement or school effectiveness.
June 1, 1997... Assessment programs intended to bring schools and pupils to high standards are adopting untraditional procedures and are proposing to support kinds of decisions that have little precedent. The assessments should have technical quality...

A new standard-setting method for performance assessments: the dominant profile judgment method and some field-test results.
June 1, 1997... Educational assessments today look very different from the assessment practices of the past couple of decades. Many of the current assessments are performance based, requiring examinees to complete tasks that include essays, projects,...

The effect of adaptive administration on the variability of the Mantel-Haenszel measure of differential item functioning.
June 1, 1997... The Mantel-Haenszel (MH; 1959) approach of Holland and Thayer (1988) is a well-established method for assessing differential item functioning (DIF). The MH index of DIF, MH D-DIF, is proportional to the natural log of the MH odds ratio...

The effect of population distribution and method of theta estimation on computerized adaptive testing using the rating scale model.
June 1, 1997... In recent years, the development of modern computer technology has enabled the potential of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to be fully realized. CAT versions of tests have become more common. The major advantage of CAT is that each...

The influence of hemispheric dominance on scores of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
June 1, 1997... Several researchers have evaluated the extent to which the Jungian cognitive paradigm modeled by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (Myers & McCaulley, 1985) may reflect cerebral lateralization as embodied theoretically in the notion of...

The use of item response theory (IRT) to investigate the hierarchical nature of a college mathematics curriculum.
June 1, 1997... The present study originally arose out of questions concerning the linear/ hierarchical nature of math curriculum at the undergraduate level. A microcomputer adaptive test was constructed (Hsu & Shermis, 1987) to place entering students in...

Development of the faculty beliefs about grades inventory.
June 1, 1997... Faculty must develop defensible and meaningful grading practices; consequently, to establish sound grading policies, faculty members must be aware of their own beliefs and attitudes about grading (Frisbie, Diamond, & Ory, 1979). The present...

The employee satisfaction inventory (ESI): development of a scale to measure satisfaction of Greek employees.
June 1, 1997... The extent to which people are satisfied with their work has been an enduring research interest. An increasing concern with the meaning of work and the belief that the degree of satisfaction at work is related to aspects of work behavior,...

Validity of scores on three attachment style scales: exploratory and confirmatory evidence.
June 1, 1997... Bowlby (1969, 1973, 1980) proposed a developmental theory of attachment of infants that has spawned a mass of conceptual and empirical work in developmental and social psychology (Bretherton, 1992). Literature on child development has...

A construct validity study of a self-concept scale for a sample of hospital nurses.
June 1, 1997... In 1975, the second cited author of this article was requested to devise an academic self-concept measure to serve as one indicator of change in an affective component of a special program for gifted students in a large metropolitan school...

Further assessment of the structure of Hinkin and Schriesheim's measures of interpersonal power.
June 1, 1997... Recent approaches to understanding supervisory leadership emphasize the role of interpersonal power. In this context, power may be defined as the capacity to influence the behavior and attitudes of other organizational participants, and...

The ethical issues rating: an instrument for measuring ethical orientation of college students toward various business practices.
June 1, 1997... The 1990s will likely be remembered, among other things, as the decade in which ethics instruction emerged as a vital part of the educational process in training persons to enter various professions. As Bok (1986) noted, In recent...

Measuring the joint agreement between multiple raters and a standard.
June 1, 1997... A number of problems in educational and psychological research require the measurement of agreement between multiple raters and a standard or "correct set" of responses. Cohen (1960) introduced a chance-corrected index of agreement, kappa,...

Computing many-one comparisons among sample variances with the SAS system.
June 1, 1997... Although there are numerous publications in refereed journals in the area of multiple comparisons, one seldom encounters research focusing on multiple comparisons among statistics such as variances or product-moment correlation coefficients....