New Developments in Quantitative Psychology

The 77th Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) brought together quantitative researchers who focus on methods relevant to psychology. The conference included workshops, invited talks by well-known scholars, and presentations of submitted papers and posters. It was hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and took place between the 9th and 12th of July, 2012. The chapters of this volume are based on presentations from the meeting and reflect the latest work in the field. Topics with a primarily measurement focus include studies of item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnostic modeling, and psychological scaling. Additional psychometric topics relate to structural equation modeling, factor analysis, causal modeling, mediation, missing data methods, and longitudinal data analysis, among others. The papers in this volume will be especially useful for researchers (graduate students and other quantitative researchers) in thesocial sciences who use quantitative methods, particularly psychologists. Most readers will benefit from some prior knowledge of statistical methods in reading the chapters.

Contains the latest work in measurement and statistics within psychology Covers broad array of topics within this area from a group of international contributors Chapters written by leading experts in the fields Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

The Editors of this volume represent the Psychometric Society's 77th Annual International Meeting and the journal Psychometrika.

Inhalt

Preface.- The Effect of Response Model Misspecification and Uncertainty on the Psychometric Properties of Estimates.- Heterogeneous Populations and Multistage Test Design.- Backmatter.