Psychometrics

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.