Abstract Background This study investigated the scoring and criterion-related validity of TEAP, a newly developed Test English for Academic Purposes. In this study, was examined by investigating factor structure, while first longitudinal change test takers’ perceived task value toward measured construct then relationship to structure TEAP. Methods Confirmatory item-level analysis conducted usin...

The present research compared Canadian and Spanish youths' perceptions of the potential benefits and drawbacks of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) and riding with a drunk driver (RDD). Eighty (41 female) Canadian and 87 (71 female) Spanish undergraduates completed a survey asking about their past and forecasted engagement in DUI and RDD, and their perceptions of the benefits and dra...

This study was an attemptto provide detailed information of the strengths and weaknesses of test takers‟ real ability through cognitive diagnostic assessment, and to detect differential item functioning in each test item. The rationale for using CDA was that it estimates an item‟s discrimination power, whereas clas- sical test theory or item response theory depicts between rather within item mu...

The fundamental rationale for advancing the present investigation is traced back to the recognition that construct-irrelevant variances and construct under-representation threaten the value implications and the consequential validity of the tests, hence spoiling the appropriateness and usefulness of the test scores for the purpose of decision-making (Mesick, 1989). Accordingly, this article dea...

In well-controlled lab situations, marginal displacements of the goalkeeper on the goal line affect goal side selection of penalty takers implicitly, that is, without the penalty takers being consciously aware of the displacement. Whether this effect is retained in more representative real-life situations with competing goalkeepers and penalty takers has not been verified. In the current study,...