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Direct linkSinharay, Sandip; van Rijn, Peter W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2020
Response time models (RTMs) are of increasing interest in educational and psychological testing. This article focuses on the lognormal model for response times, which is one of the most popular RTMs. Several existing statistics for testing normality and the fit of factor analysis models are repurposed for testing the fit of the lognormal model. A…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Psychological Testing, Goodness of Fit, Factor Analysis
Sinharay, Sandip; van Rijn, Peter – Grantee Submission, 2020
Response-time models are of increasing interest in educational and psychological testing. This paper focuses on the lognormal model for response times (van der Linden, 2006), which is one of the most popular response-time models. Several existing statistics for testing normality and the fit of factor-analysis models are repurposed for testing the…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Psychological Testing, Goodness of Fit, Factor Analysis
Wetzel, Angela Payne – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Previous systematic reviews indicate a lack of reporting of reliability and validity evidence in subsets of the medical education literature. Psychology and general education reviews of factor analysis also indicate gaps between current and best practices; yet, a comprehensive review of exploratory factor analysis in instrument development across…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Scholarship, Writing for Publication, Evidence
Frederick, Brigitte N. – 1999
Factor analysis attempts to study how different objects group together to form factors with the purposes of: (1) reducing the number of factorable entities (e.g., variables) with which the researcher needs to deal; (2) searching data for qualitative and quantitative differences; and (3) testing hypotheses (R. Gorsuch, 1983). While most factor…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Factor Analysis, Personality Measures, Psychological Testing
Cureton, Edward E. – 1968
This study reports, for a group of 257 boys and a group of 286 girls, factor analyses of 43 Project TALENT aptitude and information tests, together with 48 tests from three multiple-aptitude batteries and one high-school achievement battery (The Flanagan Aptitude Classification Tests, Differential Aptitude Tests, General Aptitude Test Battery, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1954
Four major topics were discussed at the conference: application of information theory to testing; recent advances in psychometric methods; evaluating group interaction; and new developments in the education of abler students. Papers delivered were: Multiple Assignment of Persons to Jobs, by Paul S. Dwyer; New Light on Test Strategy from Decision…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration, Advanced Placement Programs, Analysis of Variance
