Psychometrics : an introduction / R. Michael Furr and Verne R. Bacharach
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TextPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014Edition: Second editionDescription: xxi, 442 pages ; illustrations : 27 cmISBN: 9781452256801Subject(s): PSYCHOMETRICS | DIDACTIC EVALUATION | MATHEMATICAL STATISTICSLOC classification: GC BF 39 .F87 2014Summary: This book will assist students in appreciating not just how measurement problems can be addressed but why it is important to address them.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Psychometrics and the Importance of Psychological Measurement -- Part I. BASIC CONCEPTS IN MEASUREMENT -- Chapter 2. Scaling -- Chapter 3. Individual differences and correlations -- Chapter 4. Test dimensionality and factor analysis -- PART II. RELIABILITY -- Chapter 5. Reliability : conceptual basis -- Chapter 6. Empirical estimates of reliability -- Chapter 7. The Importance of reliability -- PART III. VALIDITY -- Chapter 8. Validity : conceptual basis -- Chapter 9. Estimating and evaluating convergent and discriminant validity evidence -- PART IV. THREATS TO PSYCHOMETRIC QUALITY -- Chapter 10. Response biases -- Chapter 11. Test bias -- PART V. ADVANCED PSYCHOMETRIC APPROACHES -- Chapter 12. Confirmatory factor analysis -- Chapter 13. Generalizability theory -- Chapter 14. Item response theory and Rasch models
This book will assist students in appreciating not just how measurement problems can be addressed but why it is important to address them.
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