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Item-Level Time Limits Are Not a Panacea
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Schmitz, Florian; Wilhelm, Oliver – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
The excellent paper by Goldhammer (this issue) deals with a most relevant and very pervasive problem of ability assessment: the evaluation of performance by considering speed and accuracy of performance. Goldhammer proposes item-level time limits as a possible remedy for individual differences in the speed-accuracy trade-off (SATO) to keep time…
Descriptors: Ability, Reaction Time, Accuracy, Performance