Testing, Measurement and Assessment
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Invariant Measurement
Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Rasch models are used throughout but a comparison...
Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Statistical Approaches to Measurement Invariance
This book reviews the statistical procedures used to detect measurement bias. Measurement bias is examined from a general latent variable perspective so as to accommodate different forms of testing in a variety of contexts including cognitive or clinical variables, attitudes, personality dimensions...
Published April 11th 2011 by Routledge
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Introduction to Psychometric Theory
This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades. The book introduces psychometric theory using a latent variable modeling (LVM) framework and emphasizes...
Published September 21st 2010 by Routledge
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Applying Generalizability Theory using EduG
Series: Quantitative Methodology Series
Intended to help improve measurement and data collection methods in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences, this book demonstrates an expanded and accessible use of Generalizability Theory (G theory). G theory conceptually models the way in which the reliability of measurement is ascertained....
Published October 27th 2009 by Routledge
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Modern Psychometrics, Third Edition
The Science of Psychological Assessment
Today psychometrics plays an increasingly important role in all our lives as testing and assessment occurs from preschool until retirement. This book introduces the reader to the subject in all its aspects, ranging from its early history, school examinations, how to construct your own test,...
Published December 2nd 2008 by Routledge
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Constructing Measures
An Item Response Modeling Approach
Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones. The book is organized around the steps taken while constructing an instrument....
Published October 13th 2004 by Routledge
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Item Response Theory for Psychologists
Series: Multivariate Applications Series
This book develops an intuitive understanding of IRT principles through the use of graphical displays and analogies to familiar psychological principles. It surveys contemporary IRT models, estimation methods, and computer programs. Polytomous IRT models are given central coverage since many...
Published April 30th 2000 by Psychology Press
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Test Theory
A Unified Treatment
This book introduces the reader to the main quantitative concepts, methods, and computational techniques needed for the development, evaluation, and application of tests in the behavioral/social sciences, including educational tests. Two empirical examples are carried throughout to illustrate...
Published June 30th 1999 by Psychology Press
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Measurement, Design, and Analysis
An Integrated Approach
In textbooks and courses in statistics, substantive and measurement issues are rarely, if at all, considered. Similarly, textbooks and courses in measurement virtually ignore design and analytic questions, and research design textbooks and courses pay little attention to analytic and measurement...
Published April 30th 1991 by Psychology Press