Item-position effect in online reasoning test

von Gugelberg, Helene M.; Troche, Stefan (4 September 2022). Item-position effect in online reasoning test (Unpublished). In: 17th Conference of the Swiss Psychological Society. 4-6 September 2022.

Open access reasoning tests for online assessments can be an important contribution to intelligence research. Kyllonen et al. (2019) reported promising first results for their online figural matrix (FM) but did not observe unidimensionality of the test items. With the current study, the structure of the FM test was further examined in a sample of 263 participants. Confirmatory factor analyses corroborated previous findings that the test is not unidimensional since the (essentially) tau-equivalent measurement model did not describe the data as well as a bifactor model. When a latent variable depicting an item-position effect (IPE) was added to the tau-equivalent measurement model for the reasoning latent variable, a better data description was obtained. Thus, similar to established reasoning tests such as Raven’s APM or Cattell’s CFT, the FM test is a particularly good and unidimensional measure of reasoning ability when the method effect related to the IPE is controlled for.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics

UniBE Contributor:

von Gugelberg, Helene Martina, Troche, Stefan

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology

Language:

English

Submitter:

Helene M. von Gugelberg

Date Deposited:

12 Dec 2022 11:00

Last Modified:

12 Dec 2022 18:39

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175687

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