Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Parallel analysis has been considered one of the most accurate methods for determining the number of factors in factor analysis. One major advantage of parallel analysis over traditional factor…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Test-takers, policymakers, teachers, and institutions are increasingly demanding that testing programs provide more detailed feedback regarding test performance. As a result, there has been a g…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. We outline a procedure for examining collapsibility over site in multiple-location settings that are frequently utilized in contemporary educational and behavioral research. The method is based…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The multiple imputation two-stage (MI2S) approach holds promise for evaluating the model fit of structural equation models for ordinal variables with multiply imputed data. However, previous st…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Psychologists are emphasizing the importance of predictive conclusions. Machine learning methods, such as supervised neural networks, have been used in psychological studies as they naturally f…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. A procedure is outlined for point and interval estimation of location parameters associated with polytomous items, or raters assessing studied subjects or cases, which follow the rating scale m…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. A latent variable modeling procedure for studying factorial invariance and differential item functioning for multi-component measuring instruments with nominal items is discussed. The method is…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The problem of local item dependencies (LIDs) is very common in personality and attitude measures, particularly in those that measure narrow-bandwidth dimensions. At the structural level, these…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Social desirability bias (SDB) is a common threat to the validity of conclusions from responses to a scale or survey. There is a wide range of person-fit statistics in the literature that can b…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. To mitigate the potential damaging consequences of rapid guessing (RG), a form of noneffortful responding, researchers have proposed a number of scoring approaches. The present simulation study…