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Direct linkSchmitz, 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
Goldhammer, Frank – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
The main challenge of ability tests relates to the difficulty of items, whereas speed tests demand that test takers complete very easy items quickly. This article proposes a conceptual framework to represent how performance depends on both between-person differences in speed and ability and the speed-ability compromise within persons. Related…
Descriptors: Ability, Aptitude Tests, Reaction Time, Test Items
Kahraman, Nilufer; Cuddy, Monica M.; Clauser, Brian E. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2013
This research explores the usefulness of latent growth curve modeling in the study of pacing behavior and test speededness. Examinee response times from a high-stakes, computerized examination, collected before and after the examination was subjected to a timing change, were analyzed using a series of latent growth curve models to detect…
Descriptors: Pacing, Models, Reaction Time, Timed Tests
Semmes, Robert; Davison, Mark L.; Close, Catherine – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2011
If numerical reasoning items are administered under time limits, will two dimensions be required to account for the responses, a numerical ability dimension and a speed dimension? A total of 182 college students answered 74 numerical reasoning items. Every item was taken with and without time limits by half the students. Three psychometric models…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Logical Thinking, Timed Tests, College Students
Peer reviewedJarrold, Christopher; Butler, David W.; Cottington, Emily M.; Jimenez, Flora – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Three experiments investigated whether theory-of-mind deficits and weak central coherence might be functionally related. Found that theory-of-mind performance was inversely related to a measure of central coherence bias in the general population. Poor theory-of-mind performance was linked to weak central coherence among children with typical…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Autism, Beliefs, Bias
Vernon, Philip A.; Jensen, Arthur R. – 1983
In a study of the relationship between speed of information processing and general intelligence, vocational college students (50 black males and 56 white males) took eight different reaction time tests measuring the speed with which individuals perform various elementary cognitive processes, and a group test of scholastic aptitude (the Armed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Cognitive Processes
