Improving Measurement Precision in Experimental Psychopathology Using Item Response Theory.

Although item response models have grown in popularity in many areas of educational and psychological assessment, there are relatively few applications of these models in experimental psychopathology. In this article, we explore the use of item response models in the context of a computerized cognit...

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Publicado en:Educational & Psychological Measurement Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 695 - 726
Autores principales: Feuerstahler, Leah M., Waller, Niels, MacDonald III, Angus
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Aug2020
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        Pathological psychology
        Psychoses
        Task performance
        Cognitive testing
        Computer adaptive testing
        Short-term memory
        Statistical models
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      ab: Although item response models have grown in popularity in many areas of educational and psychological assessment, there are relatively few applications of these models in experimental psychopathology. In this article, we explore the use of item response models in the context of a computerized cognitive task designed to assess visual working memory capacity in people with psychosis as well as healthy adults. We begin our discussion by describing how item response theory can be used to evaluate and improve unidimensional cognitive assessment tasks in various examinee populations. We then suggest how computerized adaptive testing can be used to improve the efficiency of cognitive task administration. Finally, we explore how these ideas might be extended to multidimensional item response models that better represent the complex response processes underlying task performance in psychopathological populations.
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