Quantitative Psychology (eBook)

L. Andries van der Ark is professor by special appointment in quantitative research methods at the Research Institute of Child Development and Education of the University of Amsterdam. His research interests include reliability analysis, nonparametric item response theory, Mokken scale analysis, and marginal models for the analysis of test and questionnaire data.Marie Wiberg is professor of statistics with a specialty in psychometrics at Umeå University in Sweden. Her research interests include test equating, applied statistics, large scale assessments, and psychometrics in general.Steven A. Culpepper is associate professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include statistical modeling in the social sciences, Bayesian models and computation, cognitive diagnosis, and alternative standardized testing formats.Jeffrey A. Douglas is a professor of statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He conducts research in latent variable analysis with a particular emphasis on item response models and cognitive diagnosis models with applications in educational testing.Wen-Chung Wang is chair professor of educational and psychological measurement at the Educational University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Rasch measurement, item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, diagnostic classification models, and ipsative data analysis. 

. High Performance Psychometrics -  New Results on an Improved Algorithm Estimating Generalized Latent Variable Models.- 2. Properties of second-order  exponential models as multidimensional item response models.- 3. Pseudo-likelihood Estimation of Multidimensional Response Models:Polytomous and Dichotomous Items.- 4. Fitting Graded Response Models to Data with Nonnormal Latent Traits.- 5. An Extention of Rudner-based Consistency and Accuracy Indices for Multidimensional Item Response Theory.- 6. Supporting diagnostic inferences using significance tests for subtest scores.- 7. A comparison of two MCMC algorithms for the 2PL IRT model.- 8. Similar DIFs: Differential Item Functioning and Factorial Invariance for Scales with Seven ("Plus or Minus Two") Response Alternatives.- 9. Finally! A Valid Test of Configural Invariance Using Permutation in Multiple-Group CFA.- 10. Outcries of Dual Scaling: The Key is Duality.- 11. The Most Predictable Criterion with Fallible Data.- 12. Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling of Cognitive Similarities Among Occupational Categories.- 13. On the Relationship Between Squared Canonical Correlation and Matrix Norm.- 14. Breaking through the sum score barrier.- 15. Overestimation of Reliability by Guttman's Lambda 4, Lambda 5, and Lambda 6, and the Greatest Lower Bound.- 16. The Performance of Five Reliability Estimates at Multidimensional Test Situations.- 17. Weighted Guttman errors: Handling ties and two-level data.- 18. Measuring Cognitive Processing Capabilities in Solving Mathematical Problems.- 19. Parameter Constraints of the Reduced RUM as a Logit Model.- 20. Hypothesis Testing for Item Consistency Index in Cognitive Diagnosis Assessment.- 21. The irreplaceability of a reachability matrix.- 22. Ensuring test quality over time by monitoring the equating transformations.- 23. An illustration of the Epanechnikov and Adaptive continuization methods in Kernel equating.- 24. (The Potential for) Accumulated Linking Error in Trend Measurement in Large-Scale Educational Assessments.- 25. IRT observed-score equating with the non-equivalent groups with covariates design.- 26. Causal Inference with Observational Multilevel Data: Investigating Selection and Outcome Heterogeneity.- 27. Non-Equivalent Groups With Covariates Design Using Propensity Scores for Kernel Equating.- 28. A mixture partial credit model analysis using a language-based covariate.- 29. Investigating Constraint-weighted Item Selection Procedures in Unfolding CAT.- 30. Rating Scale Format and Item Sensitivity to Response Style in Large-Scale Assessment.- 31. Mode Comparability Studies for a High-Stakes Testing Program.- 32. Power analysis for t-test with non-normal data and unequal variances.- 33. Statistical Power for One-Way ANOVA with Binary or Count Data.- 34. Bayesian robust estimation in causal two-stage-least-squares modeling with instrumental variables.- 35. Measuring grit among first-generation college students: A psychometric analysis.- 36. A Comparison of Item Parameter and Standard Error Recovery Across Different R Packages for Popular Unidimensional IRT Models