Applied Psychometrics: Writing-Up a Factor Analysis Construct Validation Study with Examples

Adolescent personality: a five-factor model construct validation.

The purpose of this study was to investigate convergent and discriminant validity of the five-factor model of adolescent personality in a school setting using three different raters (methods): self-ratings, peer ratings, and teacher ratings. The authors investigated validity through a multitrait-multimethod matrix and a confirmatory factor analysis correlated trait, uncorrelated method model. W...

factor analysis of construct validity: a review of

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construction and validation of a computerized adaptive translation test (a receptive based study)

آزمون انطباقی رایانه ای (cat) روشی نوین برای سنجش سطح علمی دانش آموزان می باشد. در حقیقت آزمون های رایانه ای با سرعت بالایی به سمت و سوی جایگزین عملی برای آزمون های کاغذی می روند (کینگزبری، هاوسر، 1993). مقاله حاضر به دنبال آزمون انطباقی رایانه ای برای ترجمه می باشد. بدین منظور دو پرسشنامه مشتمل بر 55 تست ترجمه میان 102 آزمودنی و 10 مدرس زبان انگلیسی پخش گردید. پرسشنامه اول میان 102 دانشجوی س...

Scope of Inference Writing Examples

• Since this was a randomized experiment, one may infer that the difference in creativity scores was caused by the difference in motivational questionnaires. Because the subjects were not selected randomly from any population, extending this inference to any other group is speculative. This deficiency, however, is minor; the causal conclusion is strong even if it applies only to the recruited s...

Construct Validation 1 Construct Validation in Organizational Behavior