Measurement Models for Psychological Attributes: Classical Test Theory, Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory, and Latent Class Models

Measurement Models for Psychological Attributes: Classical Test Theory, Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory, and Latent Class Models
ISBN-10
1439881367
ISBN-13
9781439881361
Category
Mathematics
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
2020-10-22
Publisher
CRC Press
Author
Klaas Sijtsma

Description

Despite the overwhelming use of tests and questionnaires, the psychometric models for constructing these instruments are often poorly understood, leading to suboptimal measurement. Measurement Models for Psychological Attributes is a comprehensive and accessible treatment of the common and the less than common measurement models for the social, behavioral, and health sciences. The monograph explains the adequate use of measurement models for test construction, points out their merits and drawbacks, and critically discusses topics that have raised and continue to raise controversy. Because introductory texts on statistics and psychometrics are sufficient to understand its content, the monograph may be used in advanced courses on applied psychometrics, and is attractive to both researchers and graduate students in psychology, education, sociology, political science, medicine and marketing, policy research, and opinion research. The monograph provides an in-depth discussion of classical test theory and factor models in Chapter 2; nonparametric and parametric item response theory in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, respectively; latent class models and cognitive diagnosis models in Chapter 5; and discusses pairwise comparison models, proximity models, response time models, and network psychometrics in Chapter 6. The chapters start with the theory and methods of the measurement model and conclude with a real-data example illustrating the measurement model.

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