Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Determining the number of factors in exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is crucial because it affects the rest of the analysis and the conclusions of the study. Researchers have developed variou…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The use of discrete categorical formats to assess psychological traits has a long-standing tradition that is deeply embedded in item response theory models. The increasing prevalence and endors…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Insufficient effort responding (IER) refers to a lack of effort when answering survey or questionnaire items. Such items typically offer more than two ordered response categories, with Likert-t…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. We develop a latent variable forest (LV Forest) algorithm for the estimation of latent variable scores with one or more latent variables. LV Forest estimates unbiased latent variable scores bas…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. A psychological framework for different types of items commonly used with mixed-format exams is proposed. A choice model based on signal detection theory (SDT) is used for multiple-choice (MC) …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. This note is concerned with the study of temporal development in several indices reflecting clustering effects in multilevel designs that are frequently utilized in educational and behavioral r…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. We conducted an extensive Monte Carlo study of factor-rotation local solutions (LS) in multidimensional, two-parameter logistic (M2PL) item response models. In this study, we simulated more tha…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The multidimensional forced-choice (MFC) format is an alternative to rating scales in which participants rank items according to how well the items describe them. Currently, little is known abo…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Research designs that include planned missing data are gaining popularity in applied education research. These methods have traditionally relied on introducing missingness into data collections…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. This note is concerned with the benefits that can result from the use of the maximal reliability and optimal linear combination concepts in educational and psychological research. Within the wi…