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Hung-Yu Huang – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2025
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 endorsement of computer- or web-based testing has led to greater focus on continuous response formats, which offer numerous advantages in both respondent…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Psychological Characteristics, Item Response Theory, Test Reliability
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Cornelia Eva Neuert – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
The quality of data in surveys is affected by response burden and questionnaire length. With an increasing number of questions, respondents can become bored, tired, and annoyed and may take shortcuts to reduce the effort needed to complete the survey. In this article, direct evidence is presented on how the position of items within a web…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Test Items, Test Format, Test Construction
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Kamil Jaros; Aleksandra Gajda – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Stage fright is a natural and very common phenomenon that affects everyone who must present themselves in public. However, it has a negative impact on the health and voice emission of children and adolescents, which is why it is important to study and measure it. Unfortunately, there are no appropriate tools for examining public presentation…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Fear, Public Speaking, Children
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Jan Karem Höhne; Achim Goerres – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
The measurement of political solidarities and related concepts is an important endeavor in numerous scientific disciplines, such as political and social science research. European surveys, such as the Eurobarometer, frequently measure these concepts for people's home country and Europe raising questions with respect to the order of precedence.…
Descriptors: Surveys, Attitude Measures, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Wim J. van der Linden; Luping Niu; Seung W. Choi – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
A test battery with two different levels of adaptation is presented: a within-subtest level for the selection of the items in the subtests and a between-subtest level to move from one subtest to the next. The battery runs on a two-level model consisting of a regular response model for each of the subtests extended with a second level for the joint…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Test Construction, Test Format, Test Reliability
Zebing Wu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Response style, one common aberrancy in non-cognitive assessments in psychological fields, is problematic in terms of inaccurate estimation of item and person parameters, which leads to serious reliability, validity, and fairness issues (Baumgartner & Steenkamp, 2001; Bolt & Johnson, 2009; Bolt & Newton, 2011). Response style refers to…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Accuracy, Preferences, Psychological Testing