Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. We examined the performance of coefficient alpha and its potential competitors (ordinal alpha, omega total, Revelle’s omega total [omega RT], omega hierarchical [omega h], greatest lower bound …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Multilevel structural equation models (MSEMs) are well suited for educational research because they accommodate complex systems involving latent variables in multilevel settings. Estimation usi…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. A sample suffers range restriction (RR) when its variance is reduced comparing with its population variance and, in turn, it fails representing such population. If the RR occurs over the latent…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Multidimensionality and hierarchical data structure are common in assessment data. These design features, if not accounted for, can threaten the validity of the results and inferences generated…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Several forced-choice (FC) computerized adaptive tests (CATs) have emerged in the field of organizational psychology, all of them employing ideal-point items. However, despite most items develo…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. This note is concerned with evaluation of location parameters for polytomous items in multiple-component measuring instruments. A point and interval estimation procedure for these parameters is…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The unstructured multiple-attempt (MA) item response data in virtual learning environments (VLEs) are often from student-selected assessment data sets, which include missing data, single-attemp…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. A study was conducted to implement the use of a standardized effect size and corresponding classification guidelines for polytomous data with the POLYSIBTEST procedure and compare those guideli…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Cluster randomized control trials often incorporate a longitudinal component where, for example, students are followed over time and student outcomes are measured repeatedly. Besides examining …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. To detect differential item functioning (DIF), Rasch trees search for optimal splitpoints in covariates and identify subgroups of respondents in a data-driven way. To determine whether and in w…