Psychometrics in Psychological Research: Role Model or Partner in Science?
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Psychometrics in Psychological Research: Role Model or Partner in Science?
This is a reaction to Borsboom's (2006) discussion paper on the issue that psychology takes so little notice of the modern developments in psychometrics, in particular, latent variable methods. Contrary to Borsboom, it is argued that latent variables are summaries of interesting data properties, that construct validation should involve studying nomological networks, that psychological research ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychometrika
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0033-3123,1860-0980
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-006-1497-9