Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Conceptualizing two-variable disturbances preventing good model fit in confirmatory factor analysis as item-level method effects instead of correlated residuals avoids violating the principle t…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Item response tree (IRTree) models are a flexible framework to control self-reported trait measurements for response styles. To this end, IRTree models decompose the responses to rating items i…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. In real-world situations, multidimensional data may appear on large-scale tests or psychological surveys. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the quantity and magnitude …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Indirect indices for faking detection in questionnaires make use of a respondent’s deviant or unlikely response pattern over the course of the questionnaire to identify them as a faker. Compare…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. To improve the validity of self-report measures, researchers should control for response style (RS) effects, which can be achieved with IRTree models. A traditional IRTree model considers a res…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Fit indices are descriptive measures that can help evaluate how well a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model fits a researcher’s data. In multigroup models, before between-group comparisons …
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Thurstonian forced-choice modeling is considered to be a powerful new tool to estimate item and person parameters while simultaneously testing the model fit. This assessment approach is associa…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. Marginal maximum likelihood, a common estimation method for item response theory models, is not inherently a Bayesian procedure. However, due to estimation difficulties, Bayesian priors are oft…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. The relative advantages and disadvantages of sum scores and estimated factor scores are issues of concern for substantive research in psychology. Recently, while championing estimated factor sc…
Educational and Psychological Measurement, Ahead of Print. In various fields, including college admission, medical board certifications, and military recruitment, high-stakes decisions are frequently made based on scores obtained from large-scale asses…