Measurement Theory and Applications for the Social Sciences

Deborah L. Bandalos, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Assessment and Measurement Doctoral Program in the Department of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University, where she teaches courses in exploratory factor analysis, measurement theory, and missing data methodologies. Her research areas include structural equation modeling and the effects of item wording changes in instrument development. Dr. Bandalos has published articles and book chapters in the areas of structural equation modeling, exploratory factor analysis, and item and scale development. She is an associate editor of Multivariate Behavioral Research and a past associate editor of Structural Equation Modeling. In addition, Dr. Bandalos serves on the editorial boards of Psychological Methods and Applied Measurement in Education, is on the Executive Committee of Division 5 (Quantitative and Qualitative Methods) of the American Psychological Association, and has been elected 2019 President of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology.

I. Instrument Development and Analysis
1. Introduction
2. Norms and Standardized Scores
3. The Test Development Process
4. Writing Cognitive Items
5. Writing Noncognitive Items
6. Item Analysis for Cognitive and Noncognitive Items
II. Reliability and Validity
7. Introduction to Reliability and the Classical Test Theory Model
8. Methods of Assessing Reliability
9. Interrater Agreement and Reliability
10. Generalizability Theory
11. Validity
III. Advanced Topics in Measurement Theory
12. Exploratory Factor Analysis
13. Confirmatory Factor Analysis
14. Item Response Theory, with Christine E. DeMars
15. Diagnostic Classification Models, with Laine P. Bradshaw
16. Bias, Fairness, and Legal Issues in Testing
17. Standard Setting
18. Test Equating