Psychometric Modeling of Componentially Designed Synonym Tasks

Cognitive tasks can be analyzed into cognitive components by using a subtask design, with the subtasks representing the components. The multi-component latent trait model (MLTM; Embretson, 1980, 1984) was used here for three different tasks: providing a synonym for a stimulus word (composite task), and generating and evaluating synonym candidates (subtasks). The MLTM did not fit the synonym task data. Therefore, a heuristic evaluation procedure was developed that tested the important features of the model. This procedure provided explanations for why the MLTM did not fit the data and, more importantly, which other new models would fit better.

[1]  S. Whitely.  Construct validity: Construct representation versus nomothetic span. , 1983 .

[2]  S. Embretson.  CONSTRUCT VALIDITY: CONSTRUCT REPRESENTATION VERSUS NOMOTHETIC SPAN , 1983 .

[3]  Paul De Boeck,et al.  Componential IRT Models for Polytomous Items , 1995 .

[4]  Carl P. M. Rijkes,et al.  Loglinear multidimensional IRT models for polytomously scored items , 1988 .

[5]  Cees A. W. Glas,et al.  The derivation of some tests for the rasch model from the multinomial distribution , 1988 .

[6]  Rianne Janssen,et al.  Verbal fluency and verbal comprehension abilities in synonym tasks , 1996 .

[7]  Mark D. Reckase,et al.  MAXLOG: A computer program for the estimation of the parameters of a multidimensional logistic model , 1983 .

[8]  Michael C. Anderson,et al.  On the status of inhibitory mechanisms in cognition: memory retrieval as a model case. , 1995, Psychological review.

[9]  R. Mckinley.  Confirmatory Analysis of Test Structure Using Multidimensional Item Response Theory. , 1989 .

[10]  Susan E. Whitely,et al.  Multicomponent latent trait models for ability tests , 1980 .

[11]  E. Maris.  Psychometric latent response models , 1995 .

[12]  T. A. Warm.  Weighted likelihood estimation of ability in item response theory , 1989 .

[13]  E. Muraki,et al.  Full-Information Item Factor Analysis , 1988 .

[14]  David J. Weiss.  Proceedings of the 1977 Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference , 1977 .

[15]  S. Embretson.  A general latent trait model for response processes , 1984 .

[16]  R. Kirk.  Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences , 1970 .

[17]  G. H. Fischer,et al.  The linear logistic test model as an instrument in educational research , 1973 .

[18]  Psychometric methodology : proceedings of the 7th European Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Trier , 1993 .

[19]  G. H. Fischer,et al.  Logistic latent trait models with linear constraints , 1983 .

[20]  Werner Stegelmann,et al.  Expanding the rasch model to a general model having more than one dimension , 1983 .