A Comparison of Ipsative and Normative Procedures in the Study of Cognitive Preferences.

Autor/inn/en	Tamir, Pinchas; Lunetta, Vincent N.
Titel	A Comparison of Ipsative and Normative Procedures in the Study of Cognitive Preferences.
Quelle	(1977), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Biology; Cognitive Style; Cognitive Tests; Comparative Analysis; Factor Analysis; High School Students; Individual Characteristics; Norm Referenced Tests; Secondary Education; Statistical Analysis; Test Interpretation; Test Reliability; Test Validity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biologie; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Faktorenanalyse; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sekundarbereich; Statistische Analyse; Test analysis; Testauswertung; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität
Abstract	Scores of high school students responding to the same biology cognitive preference test using both normative and ipsative procedures were compared. All subtests, whether ipsative or normative, had high alpha Cronbach coefficients. A number of similarities were found in the mean scores obtained by the two procedures, as well as moderate positive correlations in each of the cognitive preference areas. It was concluded that when ipsative scores are preferred in terms of the construct validity of cognitive preference tests, the danger of distorted relationships is not severe. This conclusion has significant implications for the findings of a number of previous studies. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC