Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development articles from January 2005

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development archives from January 2005

A psychometric revision of the European American Values Scale for Asian Americans using the Rasch Model.(ARTICLES)
January 1, 2005... The 18-item European American Values Scale for Asian Americans (M. M. Wolfe, P. H. Yang, E. C. Wong, & D. R. Atkinson, 2001) was revised on the basis of results from a psychometric analysis using the Rasch Model (G. Rasch, 1960). The results...

Two approaches to examining the stability of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator scores.
January 1, 2005... Two approaches are used to assess the stability of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator scores across 3 administrations (N = 231): longitudinal configural frequency analysis with categorical scores and generalizability theory with the Preference Clarity...

Test score stability and construct validity of the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version scores among college students: a brief report.
January 1, 2005... The authors investigated the temporal stability and construct validity of the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version (AMAS-C; C. R. Reynolds, B. O. Richmond, & P. A. Lowe, 2003b) scores. Results indicated that the AMAS-C scores had...

A proposed new "what if reliability" analysis for assessing the statistical significance of bivariate relationships.(METHODS, PLAINLY SPEAKING)
January 1, 2005... In this article, the authors (a) illustrate how displaying disattenuated correlation coefficients alongside their unadjusted counterparts will allow researchers to assess the impact of unreliability on bivariate relationships and (b)...

Assessing goodness of fit in confirmatory factor analysis.
January 1, 2005... The author identifies 3 main purposes of conducting confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and their different requirements on goodness-of-fit assessment. For a better understanding of fit indices, he proposes a hierarchical classification scheme...