Does it Matter How Data are Collected? A Comparison of Testing Conditions and the Implications for Validity
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...These correlated residuals might be caused by item-ordering effect (Barry & Finney, 2009), as these items were sequentially ordered but measuring different constructs....
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...…previous research examining the factor structure of noncognitive measures suggests dimensionality can differ across testing contexts (e.g., Barry & Finney, 2009; De Leeuw, Mellenbergh, & Hox, 1996), it is curious there have been no empirical studies assessing if the factor structure of…...
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...As Barry and Finney (2009) showed by comparing UOA and different standardizations of classroom testing, standardized test conditions are superior even for test development....
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...Whereas this setting effect can be seen as part of the ecological validity in the context of psychological experiments (Reips 2000), it might threaten the validity of competence assessments (e.g., Barry & Finney 2009)....
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...We believe this study helps answer the call of Birenbaum (2007) to evaluate the validity of the full testing program....
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...…but rather should consider these inferences within the wider frame of how the assessment instruments map to the domain of study, the psychometric functioning and internal structure of the instruments (e.g., factor structure), and the contexts in which the data were collected (Birenbaum, 2007)....
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..., factor structure), and the contexts in which the data were collected (Birenbaum, 2007)....
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