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Bifactor Models for Predicting Criteria by General and Specific Factors: Problems of Nonidentifiability and Alternative Solutions. [PDF]
J Intell, 2018 The bifactor model is a widely applied model to analyze general and specific abilities. Extensions of bifactor models additionally include criterion variables.
Eid M, Krumm S, Koch T, Schulze J.
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Calibrating the Test of Relational Reasoning: New Information From Oblique Bifactor Models. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 Relational reasoning (RR) is believed to be an essential construct for studying higher education learning. Relational reasoning is defined as an ability to discern meaningful patterns within any stream of information.
Federiakin D.
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What are the consequences of ignoring cross-loadings in bifactor models? A simulation study assessing parameter recovery and sensitivity of goodness-of-fit indices. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Bifactor latent models have gained popularity and are widely used to model construct multidimensionality. When adopting a confirmatory approach, a common practice is to assume that all cross-loadings take zero values. This article presents the results of
Ximénez C, Revuelta J, Castañeda R.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The current study seeks to validate L2 grit measure among 637 Chinese senior middle school students using a bifactor modeling approach. To do so, we first assessed and compared four alternative measurement models including CFA, bifactor CFA, ESEM, and ...
Eerdemutu Liu, Junju Wang, Sachurina Bai
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The few studies that have analyzed the factorial structure of early number skills have mainly used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and have yielded inconsistent results, since early numeracy is considered to be unidimensional, multidimensional or even
Christophe Dierendonck +5 more
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Language Testing in Asia, 2021 Rasch testlet and bifactor models are two measurement models that could deal with local item dependency (LID) in assessing the dimensionality of reading comprehension testlets.
Masoud Geramipour
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International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021 The study revisited the community of inquiry (CoI) instrument for construct revalidation. To that end, the study used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine four competing models (unidimensional, correlated-factor, second-order factor, and ...
Hongwei Yang, Ph.D., Jian Su, Ph.D.
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A Motivational-Developmental Free Response Assessment Through a Bifactor Lens
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The Motivational-Developmental Assessment (MDA) measures a university student’s motivational and developmental attributes by utilizing overlapping constructs measured across four writing prompts.
David Alpizar, Brian F. French
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The applicability of the UCLA loneliness scale in South Africa: Factor structure and dimensionality
African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2022 This study examines the generalisability of the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale Version 3 (UCLA-LS3) in a South African sample of young adults. In particular, it examined the normative data, reliability, and factor structure of this
Tyrone B. Pretorius
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Forgiveness takes place on an attitudinal continuum from hostility to friendliness: Toward a closer union of forgiveness theory and measurement. [PDF]
, 2020 Researchers commonly conceptualize forgiveness as a rich complex of psychological changes involving attitudes, emotions, and behaviors. Psychometric work with the measures developed to capture this conceptual richness, however, often points to a simpler ...
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