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Download full textMelancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1990
This paper presents analyses of score reliability for a mathematics placement test developed by the Mathematical Association of America in 1984 for use with undergraduate college students. Subjects included all 589 students seeking admission to the college mathematics curricula at a private university in the South during the course of the study.…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Mathematics, Higher Education, Item Analysis
Thompson, Bruce; Crowley, Susan – 1994
Most training programs in education and psychology focus on classical test theory techniques for assessing score dependability. This paper discusses generalizability theory and explores its concepts using a small heuristic data set. Generalizability theory subsumes and extends classical test score theory. It is able to estimate the magnitude of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Error of Measurement
Thompson, Bruce; Levitov, Justin E. – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1985
Discusses features of a microcomputer program, SCOREIT, used at New Orleans' Loyola University and several high schools to score and analyze test results. Benefits and dimensions of the program's automated test and item analysis are outlined, and several examples illustrating test and item analyses by SCOREIT are presented. (MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCook, Colleen; Thompson, Bruce – Library Trends, 2001
Investigated the psychometric integrity of scores from the LibQUAL+ evaluation of perceived library service quality conducted by ARL (Association of Research Libraries). Examines score structure, score reliability, score correlation and concurrent validity coefficients, scale means, and scale standardized norms, and considers the potential of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Concurrent Validity, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
Thompson, Bruce – 1995
The research literature provides important guidance to counselors working to keep abreast of the latest thinking regarding best practices and recently developed counseling tools. The purpose of this digest is to highlight a few errors that seem to recur within the literature, and to provide some helpful references that further explore these…
Descriptors: Counseling, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Thompson, Bruce; Stone, Elizabeth – 1994
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most frequently used measures of personality. MBTI Form G and a self-descriptive adjectival checklist, the "Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire" (PPSDQ), were administered to 191 college students. The four dimensions of personality measured by the MBTI are:…
Descriptors: Check Lists, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Factor Analysis
Melancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1988
Applied classical measurement theory was used to study the measurement characteristics of Forms A and B of the Finding Embedded Figures Test (FEFT) when the test is administered in a "no-guessing" or "supply" format. Data provided by 69 students at a private university in the southern United States were used. Both forms of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Discriminant Analysis, Guessing (Tests)
PDF pending restorationMelancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1988
The psychometric integrity of selected items from the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) placement tests for college students was investigated. Two alternative and parallel versions of the test were developed (Form A and Form B) for this study. Data for 539 students seeking admission into an undergraduate mathematics curriculum at a private…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
Thompson, Bruce – 1974
The Administrator Professional Leadership Scale (APLS) was developed to measure the professional leadership quality of a school principal, and to provide principals with anonymous feedback on teachers' perceptions of their leadership. Further refinement was carried out to increase its reliability; to discover categories of administrator behavior…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Structure, Leadership Qualities
Thompson, Bruce – 1994
Researchers too frequently consider the reliability of the scores they analyze, and this may lead to incorrect conclusions. Practice in this regard may be negatively influenced by telegraphic habits of speech implying that tests possess reliability and other measurement characteristics. Styles of speaking in journal articles, in textbooks, and in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Editing, Jargon, Language Patterns
Thompson, Bruce – 1987
This paper evaluates the logic underlying various criticisms of statistical significance testing and makes specific recommendations for scientific and editorial practice that might better increase the knowledge base. Reliance on the traditional hypothesis testing model has led to a major bias against nonsignificant results and to misinterpretation…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Data Interpretation, Editors, Effect Size
Thompson, Bruce; And Others – 1994
The original "Bayley Scales of Infant Development" (BSID) (Bayley 1969) have been among the most popular measures of performance and aptitude of infants. In the present study the reliability and construct validity of mental and motor scores on the revised Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II (BSID-II) were investigated. A national…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Melancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1990
Latent trait measurement theory was used to investigate the measurement characteristics of both parts of a multiple-choice measure of field-independence, the Finding Embedded Figures Test (FEFT). Analysis was based on data provided by 1,528 students enrolled in one of two middle schools located in the southern United States. Of the subjects, 731…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Field Dependence Independence, Item Response Theory
Thompson, Bruce – 1994
Dissertations are an important component of the effort to generate knowledge. Thus, dissertation quality may be seen by accreditation and coordinating-board reviewers as a noteworthy reflection on the quality of doctoral programs themselves. The present study reviews methodological errors within Ph.D. dissertations. The illustrative errors are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Error Patterns
