Psychometrics

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11 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Psychometrics.

• Computerized adaptive testing — Computer-administered assessment that updates an examinee ability estimate after each response and selects subsequent items to maximize information subject to content, exposure and stopping constraints.
• Content validity — The extent to which a measure's items adequately represent every relevant facet of its intended construct or content domain.
• Differential item functioning — A psychometric condition in which people from different groups with the same level of the measured trait have different probabilities of an item response.
• Item analysis — A psychometric evaluation and selection process that examines candidate questions for difficulty, discrimination, redundancy, model fit, fairness and construct coverage before assembling or revising a test.
• Item response theory — A psychometric framework modeling the probability of an item response as a function of a latent trait and item parameters.
• Item-total correlation — The correlation between one scored assessment item and a total or rest score, used to evaluate whether the item aligns with the construct measured by the scale.
• Minnesota Paper Form Board Test — A paper-and-pencil spatial-visualization test asking examinees to identify which intact figure can be assembled from a displayed set of separated component shapes.
• Pairwise comparison (psychology) — A psychometric elicitation method that presents two stimuli at a time and records a preference, similarity, or relative-attribute judgment for later scale estimation.
• Self-Report Inventory — Measure a psychological construct through a standardized set of items that respondents answer about themselves, then score those reports under a declared model while treating self-knowledge, memory, interpretation, and response presentation as part of the measurement process.
• Thurstone scale — An equal-appearing-interval attitude scale built by having judges locate statement favorability and selecting items with separated medians and low ambiguity.
• Thurstonian model — A latent-variable model that explains discrete choices, rankings or ordered responses by comparing noisy continuous psychological values, commonly modeled as jointly normal.