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Psychometrics involves the development and evaluation of mathematical models that connect the observable behaviors of persons to attributes. Because psychometric models produce numeric quantities that are typically assigned to persons for some purpose, psychometrics is sometimes characterized as a scientific discipline concerned with the practice of ...
Derek Briggs
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Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021 When it originated in the late 19th century, psychometrics was a field with both a scientific and a social mission: Psychometrics provided new methods for research into individual differences and at the same time considered these methods a means of creating a new social order.
Wijsen, Lisa D +2 more
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Psychology InternationalConstruct-irrelevant variance (CIV), defined as excessive variance that is unrelated to the intended construct, poses a significant threat to the validity of test interpretations and applications.
Tarid Wongvorachan, Okan Bulut
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Characterizations of psychometrics [PDF]
, 2021 Psychometrics is a mostly technical and model-based discipline that is concerned with (quantitative) psychological measurement. This dissertation aims to uncover the intricacies of this discipline by drawing up three characterizations of psychometrics: a
Wijsen, L.D.
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Leveraging Computational Psychometrics for Language Testing [PDF]
, 2023 The recent surge in the popularity of Large Language Models (LLM) for language assessment underscores the growing significance of cost-effective language evaluation in our increasingly digitalized society.
Ardeshir Geranpayeh
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Statistics in Medicine, 2009 AbstractWhen data are abundant relative to the number of questions asked of them, answers can be formulated using little more than those data. But when data grow more sparse, so too does our tendency to lean on strong models to help us draw inferences. In this research we show how a strong item response model embedded within a fully Bayesian framework ...
Peter, Baldwin +2 more
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Abuse and Misuse of Psychometrics as a Threat to Vocational Psychology [PDF]
, 2019 Psychometrics—the science and technology of measuring psychological constructs—is a definitive feature of vocational psychology and career development. For a century, vocational psychology has produced and refined measures for research and practices in ...
Harsha N. Perera +3 more
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Psych, 2021 Misophonia involves a strong emotional response to certain sounds and can cause significant distress and functional impairment. The aim of this study was to present and psychometrically evaluate a new, multidimensional measure of misophonia, the S-Five ...
Silia Vitoratou +3 more
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Journal of Intelligence, 2023 Carroll’s treatise on the structure of human cognitive abilities is a milestone in psychometric intelligence research. Thirty years later, Carroll’s work continues to influence research on intelligence theories and the development and interpretation of ...
Kevin S. McGrew
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