Quantitative Psychology Research: The 78th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Book 89)

The 78th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) builds on the Psychometric Society's mission to share quantitative methods relevant to psychology. The chapters of this volume present cutting-edge work in the field. Topics 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 in the social sciences who use quantitative methods. Prior knowledge of statistical methods is recommended. The 78th annual meeting took place in Arnhem, The Netherlands between July 22nd and 26th, 2013. The previous volume to showcase work from the Psychometric Society’s Meeting is New Developments in Quantitative Psychology: Presentations from the 77th Annual Psychometric Society Meeting (Springer, 2014). Front Matter....Pages i-ix What Do You Mean by a Difficult Item? On the Interpretation of the Difficulty Parameter in a Rasch Model....Pages 1-14 Thurstonian Item Response Theory and an Application to Attitude Items....Pages 15-25 Robustness of Mixture IRT Models to Violations of Latent Normality....Pages 27-43 An Option-Based Partial Credit Item Response Model....Pages 45-72 A General Saltus LLTM-R for Cognitive Assessments....Pages 73-90 Multidimensional IRT Models to Analyze Learning Outcomes of Italian Students at the End of Lower Secondary School....Pages 91-111 Graphical Representations of Items and Tests That are Measuring Multiple Abilities....Pages 113-132 New Item-Selection Methods for Balancing Test Efficiency Against Item-Bank Usage Efficiency in CD-CAT....Pages 133-151 Comparison of Linear, Computerized Adaptive and Multi Stage Adaptive Versions of the Mathematics Assessment of Turkish Pupil Monitoring System....Pages 153-163 Optimal Sampling Design for IRT Linking with Bimodal Data....Pages 165-179 Selecting a Data Collection Design for Linking in Educational Measurement: Taking Differential Motivation into Account....Pages 181-193 Vertical Comparison Using Reference Sets....Pages 195-211 A Dependent Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Test Equating....Pages 213-226 Using a Modified Multidimensional Priority Index for Item Selection Under Within-Item Multidimensional Computerized Adaptive Testing....Pages 227-242 Assessing Differential Item Functioning in Multiple Grouping Variables with Factorial Logistic Regression....Pages 243-259 MTP2 and Partial Correlations in Monotone Higher-Order Factor Models....Pages 261-272 A Comparison of Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Binary Data on the Basis of Tetrachoric Correlations and of Probability-Based Covariances: A Simulation Study....Pages 273-292 On Cronbach’s Alpha as the Mean of All Split-Half Reliabilities....Pages 293-300 An Empirical Assessment of Guttman’s Lambda 4 Reliability Coefficient....Pages 301-310 A Test for Ordinal Measurement Invariance....Pages 311-317 Model Selection Criteria for Latent Growth Models Using Bayesian Methods....Pages 319-341 A Comparison of the Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model, Multiple-Indicators Multiple-Causes, and the Item Response Theory-Likelihood Ratio Test for Detecting Differential Item Functioning....Pages 343-357 Comparing Estimation Methods for Categorical Marginal Models....Pages 359-375 Evaluating Simplicial Mixtures of Markov Chains for Modeling Student Metacognitive Strategies....Pages 377-393 Partitioning Variance Into Constituents in Multiple Regression Models: Commonality Analysis....Pages 395-405 Multilevel Random Mediation Analysis: A Comparison of Analytical Alternatives....Pages 407-428 Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome Variables....Pages 429-450 Comparison of Nested Models for Multiply Imputed Data....Pages 451-464 A Paradox by Another Name Is Good Estimation....Pages 465-486