Multivariate Hypothesis Testing Methods for Evaluating Significant Individual Change.

ABSTRACT: The measurement of individual change has been an important topic in both education and psychology. For instance, teachers are interested in whether students have significantly improved (e.g., learned) from instruction, and counselors are interested in whether particular behaviors have been significantly changed after certain interventions. Although classical test methods have been unable to adequately resolve the problems in measuring change, recent approaches for measuring change have begun to use item response theory (IRT). However, all prior methods mainly focus on testing whether growth is significant at the group level. The present research targets a key research question: Is the "change" in latent trait estimates for each individual significant across occasions? Many re

SUBMITTER: Wang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5985704 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature