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Successful participants understand the theory that underlies representation of psychological entities by numbers. They know the basic properties of psychological tests built on classical test theory and item-response theory. Students reflect and critically assess tests and test results and acquire knowledge and skills for professional assessment (e.g., in education) as well as for their own research.

Measurement theory with measurement structures for ordinal and interval scales (extensive measurement, difference structures, bisymmetry, conjoint measurement), classical test theory (reliability, validity) and test construction, item-response-theory (Rasch, Birnbaum), qualitative measurement using knowledge structures

Lecture with exercises

Written exam online

Falmagne J.-C., Cosyn, E., Doignon, J.-P. & Thiéry, N. (2006). The assessment of knowledge, in theory and in practice. In: Missaoui, R., Schmidt, J. (Eds.), Formal Concept Analysis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3874. Berlin: Springer. URL: https://www.aleks.com/about_aleks/Science_Behind_ALEKS.pdf

Falmagne, J.-C., Koppen, M., Villano, M., Doignon, J.-P. & Johannesen, L. (1990). Introduction to knowledge spaces: How to build, test and search them. Psychological Review, 97, 201-224.

Mausfeld, R. (1993). Von Zahlzeichen zu Skalen. In: T. Herrmann & W.Tack (Hrsg.), Methodische Grundlagen der Psychologie. Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Bereich B, Serie I, Bd.1, (S. 558-603). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Moosbrugger, H. & Kelava, A. (2020, Hrsg.). Testtheorie und Fragebogenkonstruktion (3. Aufl.). Heidelberg: Springer. (einzelne Kapitel)

Debelak, R., Strobl, C. & Zeigenfuse, M. D. (2022). An Introduction to the Rasch Model with Examples in R. Chapman & Hall.

Suck, R. (2001). Representational theory of measurement. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 9442-9448.

Weiterführende Literatur

Borsboom, D. (2006). The attack of the psychometricians. Psychometrika, 71, 425–440.

Maul, A. (2017). Rethinking Traditional Methods of Survey Validation. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives

Krantz, D., Suppes, P., Luce, D. & Tversky, A. (1978). Foundations of measurement. Volume 1. Additive and polynomial representations.