Essays on Contemporary Psychometrics

L. Andries van der Ark is full professor of psychometrics at the research institute of Child Development and Education at the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Graduate School of Child Development and Education at the University of Amsterdam. He has over 100 refereed publications since 1997 (H-index 35), including two monographs. His research interests include statistical solutions to practical data problems, such as handling missing data, handling outliers, and norming test scores; construction of psychological and educational tests; nonparametric item response theory, including Mokken scale analysis; categorical marginal models and their application to test data; and software development for psychometrics. He has been the editor of five volumes in the Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics series (Millsap et al., 2014, 2015; Van der Ark et al, 2015, 2016,  2017) and one volume in Erlbaum's Quantitative Methodology Series (Van der Ark et al., 2005). He has been associate editor of the Journal of Educational Measurement (2013-2016), guest editor of the journals Methodology (2010) and Quality of Life Research (2020-2021), and ad-hoc reviewer for over 50 scientific journals, publishers, and grant providers. He has been in the editorial board of the International Journal of Testing (2015-2016). Recently, he finished a monograph (together with Klaas Sijtsma) on measurement models for psychological attributes (Sijtsma & Van der Ark, 2020) with Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Wilco H.M. Emons is currently senior scientific researcher at the Department of Research & Innovation of Cito (National Institute of Educational Measurement) in the Netherlands. Prior to his transfer to Cito in 2019 he worke d for 15 years as an assistant professor (tenured) at Tilburg University. His main research interests include test construction, (computational) psychometrics, educational testing, (research) ethics, and longitudinal assessment. He is involved in over 60 refereed publications (articles, book chapters) since 2001 and presented his work on many conferences worldwide. He has been member of Dutch Committee of Tests and Testing in the Netherlands for eight years and has been involved as a methodologist in different steering groups for Dutch ministries.

Rob R. Meijer is full professor of Psychometrics and Statistics at the University of Groningen. He studied I/O psychology and did his Ph.D thesis on items response theory. His main interests are in psychological and educational testing and methods to improve  the quality of tests. His latest research is concerned with in the use of tests in decision making and personnel selection.  He published over 100 paper papers in international journals on psychometric topics, personnel an educational selection, and test use. He supervised over 20 PhD theses.He has been on the editorial board of Psychological Methods and Journal of Educational Measurement and  Editor of the International Journal of Testing and is now on the editorial board of the journals Assessment, Journal of Personality Assessment and International Journal of Testing. Furthermore he is director of the Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS).

Part I. General Perspectives on Psychometrics. 1. Early Roots of Psychometrics Before Francis Galton (Willem J. Heiser).- 2. The Janus Face of Psychometrics (Paul De Boeck and L. Robert Gore).- 3. Psychological and Educational Testing and Decision Making: The Lack of Knowledge Dissemination in Textbooks and Test Guidelines (Rob R. Meijer, A. Susan M. Niessen, and Marvin Neumann).- 4. Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Psychometrics (Bernard P. Veldkamp).- 5. Psychological Constructs as Organizing Principles (Denny Borsboom).- Part II. Factor Analysis and Classical Test Theory. 6. A New Expression and Interpretation of Coefficient Omega Under the Congeneric One-Factor Model (David J. Hessen).- 7. A Factor Analysis Approach to Item-Level Change Score Reliability (Dylan Molenaar).- 8. Handling Missing Data in Principal Component Analysis Using Multiple Imputation (Joost R. van Ginkel).- 9. Quantifying the Bias of Non-Linear Equating and Score Transformations (Matthias von Davier and Brian Clauser).- 10. Examination of Test Characteristics Effect on Coefficient and Coefficient (Terry Ackerman, Ye Ma, and Richard Luecht).- 11. Methods for Estimating Conditional Standard Errors of Measurement and Some Critical Reflections (Wilco H. M. Emons).- Part III. Item Response Theory. 12. Composition Algorithms For Conditional Distributions (Maarten Marsman, Timo B. Bechger, and Gunter K. J. Maris).- 13. To a or Not to a: On the Use of the Total Score (Bas T. Hemker).- 14. A Bayesian Test for the Association of Binary Response Distributions (Rudy Ligtvoet).- 15. Efficiency and Effectiveness of Teacher Informed Targeting Testing from Different Perspectives (J. Hendrik Straat, Renske E. Kuijpers, Kimberley Lek, and Wilco H. M. Emons).- Part IV. New Psychometrics. 16. The Hierarchical Model for Response Times: Advantages, Limitations, and Risks of Its Use in Measurement Practice (Jesper Tijmstra and Maria Bolsinova).- 17. Computer-Adaptive Testing with Fewer Assumptions (Jules L. Ellis).- 18. Validity Indices for Interpreting Informant Discrepancies in ADHD Assessment (Judith M. Conijn, Mengdi Chen, Hanneke van Ewijk, and L. Andries van der Ark).- 19. Computerized Adaptive Testing Without IRT for Flexible Measurement and Prediction (L. Andries van der Ark and Niels Smits).- 20. On the Relationship Between Unidimensional Item Response Theory and Higher-Order Cognitive Diagnosis Models (Jimmy de la Torre and Kevin Carl Santos).- 21. A Sparse Latent Class Model for Polytomous Attributes in Cognitive Diagnostic AssessmentsSiqi He, Steven A. Culpepper, and Jeffrey A. Douglas.- Subject index.

"I found Essays on Contemporary Psychometrics a highly recommendable read that will certainly help researchers and practitioners alike to familiarize themselves with new trends and innovations in psychometrics in the new millennium." (Youn Seon Lim, Psychometrika, Vol. 88 (3), September, 2023)

“I found Essays on Contemporary Psychometrics a highly recommendable read that will certainly help researchers and practitioners alike to familiarize themselves with new trends and innovations in psychometrics in the new millennium.” (Youn Seon Lim, Psychometrika, Vol. 88 (3), September, 2023)