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Karl Schweizer; Andreas Gold; Dorothea Krampen; Stefan Troche – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
Conceptualizing two-variable disturbances preventing good model fit in confirmatory factor analysis as item-level method effects instead of correlated residuals avoids violating the principle that residual variation is unique for each item. The possibility of representing such a disturbance by a method factor of a bifactor measurement model was…
Descriptors: Correlation, Factor Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Item Analysis
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Tenko Raykov; Christine DiStefano; Lisa Calvocoressi – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
This note demonstrates that the widely used Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) need not be generally viewed as a routinely dependable index for model selection when the bifactor and second-order factor models are examined as rival means for data description and explanation. To this end, we use an empirically relevant setting with…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Models, Decision Making, Comparative Analysis
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Markus T. Jansen; Ralf Schulze – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
Thurstonian forced-choice modeling is considered to be a powerful new tool to estimate item and person parameters while simultaneously testing the model fit. This assessment approach is associated with the aim of reducing faking and other response tendencies that plague traditional self-report trait assessments. As a result of major recent…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Models, Item Analysis, Evaluation Methods
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Jang, Yoona; Hong, Sehee – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the degree of classification quality in the basic latent class model when covariates are either included or are not included in the model. To accomplish this task, Monte Carlo simulations were conducted in which the results of models with and without a covariate were compared. Based on these simulations,…
Descriptors: Classification, Models, Prediction, Sample Size
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Lee, Bitna; Sohn, Wonsook – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
A Monte Carlo study was conducted to compare the performance of a level-specific (LS) fit evaluation with that of a simultaneous (SI) fit evaluation in multilevel confirmatory factor analysis (MCFA) models. We extended previous studies by examining their performance under MCFA models with different factor structures across levels. In addition,…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Factor Structure, Monte Carlo Methods, Factor Analysis
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Wang, Yan; Kim, Eunsook; Ferron, John M.; Dedrick, Robert F.; Tan, Tony X.; Stark, Stephen – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2021
Factor mixture modeling (FMM) has been increasingly used to investigate unobserved population heterogeneity. This study examined the issue of covariate effects with FMM in the context of measurement invariance testing. Specifically, the impact of excluding and misspecifying covariate effects on measurement invariance testing and class enumeration…
Descriptors: Role, Error of Measurement, Monte Carlo Methods, Models
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Huang, Hung-Yu – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
The forced-choice (FC) item formats used for noncognitive tests typically develop a set of response options that measure different traits and instruct respondents to make judgments among these options in terms of their preference to control the response biases that are commonly observed in normative tests. Diagnostic classification models (DCMs)…
Descriptors: Test Items, Classification, Bayesian Statistics, Decision Making
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Yesiltas, Gonca; Paek, Insu – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
A log-linear model (LLM) is a well-known statistical method to examine the relationship among categorical variables. This study investigated the performance of LLM in detecting differential item functioning (DIF) for polytomously scored items via simulations where various sample sizes, ability mean differences (impact), and DIF types were…
Descriptors: Simulation, Sample Size, Item Analysis, Scores
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Komboz, Basil; Strobl, Carolin; Zeileis, Achim – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Psychometric measurement models are only valid if measurement invariance holds between test takers of different groups. Global model tests, such as the well-established likelihood ratio (LR) test, are sensitive to violations of measurement invariance, such as differential item functioning and differential step functioning. However, these…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Tests, Measurement
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Raykov, Tenko; Marcoulides, George A.; Akaeze, Hope O. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
This note is concerned with examining the relationship between within-group and between-group variances in two-level nested designs. A latent variable modeling approach is outlined that permits point and interval estimation of their ratio and allows their comparison in a multilevel study. The procedure can also be used to test various hypotheses…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Models, Statistical Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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von Davier, Matthias; Tyack, Lillian; Khorramdel, Lale – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
Automated scoring of free drawings or images as responses has yet to be used in large-scale assessments of student achievement. In this study, we propose artificial neural networks to classify these types of graphical responses from a TIMSS 2019 item. We are comparing classification accuracy of convolutional and feed-forward approaches. Our…
Descriptors: Scoring, Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Elementary Secondary Education
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Cain, Meghan K.; Zhang, Zhiyong; Bergeman, C. S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
This article serves as a practical guide to mediation design and analysis by evaluating the ability of mediation models to detect a significant mediation effect using limited data. The cross-sectional mediation model, which has been shown to be biased when the mediation is happening over time, is compared with longitudinal mediation models:…
Descriptors: Mediation Theory, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Measurement Techniques
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Grice, James W.; Yepez, Maria; Wilson, Nicole L.; Shoda, Yuichi – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
An alternative to null hypothesis significance testing is presented and discussed. This approach, referred to as observation-oriented modeling, is centered on model building in an effort to explicate the structures and processes believed to generate a set of observations. In terms of analysis, this novel approach complements traditional methods…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Models, Observation, Statistical Inference
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Wind, Stefanie A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
Molenaar extended Mokken's original probabilistic-nonparametric scaling models for use with polytomous data. These polytomous extensions of Mokken's original scaling procedure have facilitated the use of Mokken scale analysis as an approach to exploring fundamental measurement properties across a variety of domains in which polytomous ratings are…
Descriptors: Nonparametric Statistics, Scaling, Models, Item Response Theory
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Finch, W. Holmes; Shim, Sungok Serena – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
Collection and analysis of longitudinal data is an important tool in understanding growth and development over time in a whole range of human endeavors. Ideally, researchers working in the longitudinal framework are able to collect data at more than two points in time, as this will provide them with the potential for a deeper understanding of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computation, Time, Change
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