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Stefanie A. Wind; Benjamin Lugu; Yurou Wang – International Journal of Testing, 2025
Mokken Scale Analysis (MSA) is a nonparametric approach that offers exploratory tools for understanding the nature of item responses while emphasizing invariance requirements. MSA is often discussed as it relates to Rasch measurement theory, which also emphasizes invariance, but uses parametric models. Researchers who have compared and combined…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Scaling, Surveys, Evaluation Methods
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Tolga Erdogan; Begum Serim-Yildiz; Joy J. Burnham; Stefanie A. Wind – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Children's fears have received scholarly attention for well over 50 years. A considerable amount of literature has focused on such fear variables as fear intensity and fear prevalence scores and age and gender differences. We used meta-analysis to systematically review the findings related to gender differences in children's fear intensity scores…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Children, Fear, Meta Analysis
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Stefanie A. Wind; Beyza Aksu-Dunya – Applied Measurement in Education, 2024
Careless responding is a pervasive concern in research using affective surveys. Although researchers have considered various methods for identifying careless responses, studies are limited that consider the utility of these methods in the context of computer adaptive testing (CAT) for affective scales. Using a simulation study informed by recent…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Affective Measures