Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. In the context of Bayesian factor analysis, it is possible to compute plausible values, which might be used as covariates or predictors or to provide individual scores for the Bayesian latent v…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Percentage of uncontaminated correlations (PUC), explained common variance (ECV), and omega hierarchical (ωH) have been used to assess the degree to which a scale is essentially unidimensional …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Sensitivity analyses encompass a broad set of post-analytic techniques that are characterized as measuring the potential impact of any factor that has an effect on some output variables of a mo…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Adoption of new instructional standards in science demands high-quality information about classroom practice. Teacher portfolios can be used to assess instructional practice and support teacher…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The goal of the present study was to address the analytical complexity of incorporating responses and response times through applying the Jeon and De Boeck mixture item response theory model in…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. A class of effect size indices are discussed that evaluate the degree to which two nested confirmatory factor analysis models differ from each other in terms of fit to a set of observed variabl…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The effects of different response option orders on survey responses have been studied extensively. The typical research design involves examining the differences in response characteristics bet…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The forced-choice (FC) item formats used for noncognitive tests typically develop a set of response options that measure different traits and instruct respondents to make judgments among these …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. This paper investigated consequences of measurement error in the pretest on the estimate of the treatment effect in a pretest–posttest design with the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) model, foc…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Differential item functioning (DIF) is often used to examine validity evidence of alternate form test accommodations. Unfortunately, traditional approaches for evaluating DIF are prone to selec…