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Direct linkWang, Wen-Chung; Chen, Hsueh-Chu – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2004
As item response theory (IRT) becomes popular in educational and psychological testing, there is a need of reporting IRT-based effect size measures. In this study, we show how the standardized mean difference can be generalized into such a measure. A disattenuation procedure based on the IRT test reliability is proposed to correct the attenuation…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Rating Scales, Sample Size, Error of Measurement
Seal, Brenda C. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2004
Twenty-eight sign language interpreters participated in a battery of tests to determine if a profile of cognitive, motor, attention, and personality attributes might distinguish them as a group and at different credential levels. Eight interpreters held Level II and nine held Level III Virginia Quality Assurance Screenings (VQAS); the other 11…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Abstract Reasoning, Psychological Testing, Deaf Interpreting
Rossiter, Susan; Stevens, Catherine; Walker, Gary – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: In 2 experiments, the assumption that continual orienting to tinnitus uses cognitive resources was investigated. It was hypothesized that differences in performance of tinnitus and control groups would manifest during demanding or unfamiliar tasks that required strategic, controlled processing and that reduced performance was not related…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Control Groups, Anxiety, Memory
Download full textLatkovich, Sharon A. – 1996
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is used to assess the behavioral problems and social competencies of children. Its broad usage in both a practitioner and research context has led to misapplications as compared to the CBCL's original intended purpose. Practical applications vary from the more traditional mental health centers and medical…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Fago, George C. – 1996
In an effort to improve instruction related to psychometrics and psychological testing for beginning psychology majors, an approach was developed at Pennsylvania's Ursinus College that incorporates active, participatory learning and problem solving. The approach is used in a course on research methods and makes use of a networked computer system…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Higher Education
Camacho, Luis E. – 1994
A problem exists in the lack of assessment coordination between monolingual psychologists and bilingual psychologists when working with language minority children referred for evaluation of special needs. This practicum was designed to improve the psychological assessment coordination between monolingual English psychologists and the bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cooperative Planning, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis
Aman, Michael G. – 1991
This survey of the instruments and methods that are currently available for assessing mental health problems in persons with mental retardation lists formalized instruments and interview techniques and evaluates them from a methodological perspective. Emphasis is on the assessment and classification of disorders rather than on the evaluation of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods
Merickel, Mark L. – 1992
The premise of the Creative Technology Project, a collaboration by Autodesk, Inc., the School of Education at Oregon State University, and Novato Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay Area, was that children's cognitive abilities could be enhanced by having them develop, displace, transform, and interact with 2D and 3D…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Computer Graphics, Computers
Parker, Wayne – 1991
Patterns of responses to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) that typify deliberate deception of others (faking good) were studied using 100 undergraduates at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) who were given extra course credit for participation in the study. Females constituted 73% of the final subject pool. Each…
Descriptors: Chi Square, Discriminant Analysis, Higher Education, Personality Measures
Nandakumar, Ratna; Stout, William – 1992
A detailed investigation of the statistical procedure of W. Stout (the computer program DIMTEST) for testing the hypothesis that an essentially unidimensional latent trait model fits observed binary response data from a psychological test is presented. One finding is that DIMTEST may fail to perform as desired in the presence of guessing when…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics)
International Personnel Management Association, Washington, DC. – 1982
The International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council (IPMAAC) is a section of the International Personnel Management Association dedicated to the improvement of public personnel assessment in such fields as selection and performance evaluation. Author-generated summaries/outlines of papers presented at the IPMAAC's 1982 conference…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Job Performance, Occupational Tests, Personnel Evaluation
Peer reviewedLefley, Harriet P. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1975
The hypothesis that minority self-concept may vary as a function of implicit ethnic and nonethnic evaluative criteria is investigated by testing 40 Mikasaki Seminole Indian children in their native language with Indian examiners and in English with Anglo examiners. The results indicate response stability across languages and time. (Author/DE)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Cultural Influences
Burgon, J. R. – 1990
The differences in raw scores between two versions of the Standard Progressive Matrices Test (SPM) and differences in available norms for one version and the currently studied population were investigated. The SPM was originally designed to measure the general factor of intelligence unrestrained by language. Scores for the untimed SPM version…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation
Moreland, Kevin L.; And Others – 1986
Three papers are included in this document. The first, "An Introduction to the Problem of Test User Qualifications," by Kevin L. Moreland, is a short history of the American Psychological Association (APA)/American Educational Research Association (AERA)/National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Working Group on Test User…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Ethics, Evaluation Methods, Models
Minton, Henry L. – 1985
The association between Lewis M. Terman and the World Book Company is traced in order to gain insight about the role of test publishing in the testing movement. The test publisher assumes the position of an intermediary between the test developer and the educational administrator responsible for making decisions about test adoption. Terman began…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Armed Forces, Educational History, Educational Testing
