The effect of response styles on growth estimates varies by psychological construct, response style, and IRT model used¶
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q2 i? Effects of response styles on growth estimates vary by psychological construct, response style, and the IRT model used for scoring. → James Soland 2020
q2 i? Response styles can affect estimates of growth parameters including the slope, and the effects vary by psychological construct, response style, and model used. → James Soland 2020
q2 i? Response styles can affect estimates of growth parameters including the slope when longitudinal survey scores are used in growth models. → James Soland 2020
Evidence¶
James Soland 2020¶
James Soland, Megan Kuhfeld. (2020). Do response styles affect estimates of growth on social-emotional constructs? Evidence from four years of longitudinal survey scores. Multivariate Behavioral Research. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/do-response-styles-affect-estimates-of-growth-on-social-emotional-constructs-evidence-from-four-years-of-longitudinal-survey-scores-journal/ doi:10.1080/00273171.2020.1778440
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Comparative analysis across constructs, response styles, and IRT scoring models in the empirical and simulation analyses. The article reports the effects "vary by psychological construct, response style, and IRT model used," so no single direction or magnitude holds universally.
"Generally, we found that response styles can affect estimates of growth parameters including the slope, but that the effects vary by psychological construct, response style, and IRT model used."
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Related Claims¶
- Multidimensional IRT scores that account for latent variable covariances over time produce better recovery of growth parameters in longitudinal growth models than sum scores and other IRT approaches — related
- Differing response styles create a construct-irrelevant source of bias that distorts inferences from survey data — related
- Little of the existing IRT scaling and linking expertise from large-scale educational assessment is applied to scaling psychological and social-emotional survey constructs — related
- In a four-timepoint quadratic-growth simulation, the MIRT model marginally outperforms sum score and cross-sectional models for slope and quadratic means and much better recovers intercept and slope variances — related
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The effect of response styles on growth estimates varies by psychological construct, response style, and IRT model used |
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The effect of response styles on growth estimates varies by psychological construct, response style, and IRT model used |
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2020 |
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2026-10-15 |
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2023 |
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