Educational and Psychological Measurement articles from October 1998

Educational and Psychological Measurement archives from October 1998

Effects of potential confounding factors on fit indices and parameter estimates for true and misspecified SEM models. (structural equation modeling)
October 1, 1998... Structural equation modeling (SEM) has increasingly been seen as a useful quantitative technique for specifying, estimating, and testing hypothesized models describing relationships among a set of substantively meaningful variables. Because...

A historical comparison of validity standards and validity practices.
October 1, 1998... The changes in validity theory over the past 50 years have been given various labels. Shepard (1993) refers to these changes as an "evolution," whereas Geisinger (1992) refers to them as a "metamorphosis." No matter what label is applied to...

Analysis and comparison of WISC-III weighted sum score factor models using two independent samples.
October 1, 1998... Debate will probably always surround our understanding of child intelligence, despite decades of research (Allen & Thorndike, 1995; Blaha & Wallbrown, 1996; Dixon & Anderson, 1995; Donders, 1996; Kamphaus, 1993; Kamphaus, Benson, Hutchinson,...

Measuring and predicting counterproductivity in the laboratory using integrity and personality testing.
October 1, 1998... Traditional approaches to personnel selection have focused on the use of cognitive ability tests, biodata, job knowledge tests, interviews, and other devices to choose those applicants who are most likely to be productive. A more recent...

A Piagetian scale for the measurement of ethical competence in politics.
October 1, 1998... In the highly integrated and fast-changing world of today, guidelines for political decisions are fading. Political ideologies that previously provided the standards are now very weak in modern plural democracies. As leaders of society,...

Scales to measure four dimensions of dispositional mood: positive energy, tiredness, negative activation, and relaxation.
October 1, 1998... The past two decades have witnessed tremendous growth in research on the personality construct of individual mood. Although at first the structure of mood took many theoretical forms (Isen, Clark, & Schwartz, 1976; Nowlis, 1965; Russell,...

A third-order component analysis of the Myers-Briggs type indicator.
October 1, 1998... Between 1975 and 1996, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has grown from being almost unknown to being the most widely used personality instrument in the United States (McCaulley, 1990, p. 186). The MBTI is presently the third most...

Reliability of performance on the Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL) by an adolescent learning disability sample.
October 1, 1998... The Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL) (Reynolds & Bigler, 1994) is a comprehensive battery of 10 core and 4 supplementary subtests designed to assess memory functioning in children and youth ages 5 years, 0 months, 0 days through 19 years,...

SIMPLE: all-in-one programs for exploring interactions in moderated multiple regression.
October 1, 1998... Moderated multiple regression is the recommended statistical technique for examining interactions between predictors, especially when some of the predictors are continuously scored (Aiken & West, 1991; Cohen & Cohen, 1983; Darlington, 1990;...

TH-SCORE: a program for obtaining ability estimates under different psychometric models.
October 1, 1998... A review of the available computer programs that can be used for psychometric analysis shows that, for certain models, it is easier to obtain item parameter estimates (item calibration) than subject ability estimates (scoring). One example...

An SAS program for estimating a mixture of two normal regressions.
October 1, 1998... Often, researchers need to characterize data that are not well described by any of the commonly used random variables. For example, the distribution of the data may be characterized by either bimodality or the presence of outliers. On other...