Psychometrics

Adolescent Cognitive Development and Connectivity

This study focuses on the concurrent understanding of cognitive development by integrating contemporary psychometric modeling techniques to capture both broad latent cognitive abilities and specific, time-sensitive interactions within distinct …

Examining Computer Science Educators’ Professional Identity

The rapid pace of technological advancement and its immersive impact on our society underscores the need for all students to acquire fundamental knowledge and skills in computer science. Teachers are critical to the efforts to expand access and …

The Struggle Is Real

Strong theories are sorely lacking in the applied social sciences, especially in psychology. Elko Fried (2020) identifies fundamental problems that are common in social science research and explains how these problems manifest themselves in the …

Response or recall bias? Choosing between the traditional and retrospective pretest using measurement invariance techniques

This study examines response shift in an evaluation of a computing education program in which both traditional and retrospective pretests were used across two waves of data collection, by using measurement invariance techniques.

An item response theory approach to the measurement of working memory capacit Theory

This study fitted and compared item response models of item-level responses of different complex span tasks. Results, especially item parameters, may reveal the variety of domain specificity in different complex span tasks.

General Intelligence Explained (Away)

Confirmatory latent factor models on simulated data indicate that a higher-order g can emergy even without a common cause.

Intro to Generalized Mixed Effects Model in R

An example of generalized mixed effects model (GLMM) in with lmer package.

Intro to Item Response Modeling in R

An example of item response modeling with the mirt package.