Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Factor score regression (FSR) is widely used as a convenient alternative to traditional structural equation modeling (SEM) for assessing structural relations between latent variables. But when …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. This study seeks to compare fixed and mixed effects models for the purposes of predictive classification in the presence of multilevel data. The first part of the study utilizes a Monte Carlo s…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. In the literature of modern psychometric modeling, mostly related to item response theory (IRT), the fit of model is evaluated through known indices, such as χ2, M2, and root mean square error …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Automated scoring of free drawings or images as responses has yet to be used in large-scale assessments of student achievement. In this study, we propose artificial neural networks to classify …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different data conditions on item parameter recovery and classification accuracy of three dichotomous mixture item response theory (IRT) …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. To reduce the chance of Heywood cases or nonconvergence in estimating the 2PL or the 3PL model in the marginal maximum likelihood with the expectation-maximization (MML-EM) estimation method, p…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Assessing the measurement model (MM) of self-report scales is crucial to obtain valid measurements of individuals’ latent psychological constructs. This entails evaluating the number of measure…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the degree of classification quality in the basic latent class model when covariates are either included or are not included in the model. To accomplis…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. When scores are used to make decisions about respondents, it is of interest to estimate classification accuracy (CA), the probability of making a correct decision, and classification consistenc…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Multidimensional forced-choice (FC) questionnaires have been consistently found to reduce the effects of socially desirable responding and faking in noncognitive assessments. Although FC has be…