Psychology 2080A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Item Response Theory, Revised Version, Backtracking

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

Document Summary

Chapter 9 theories of intelligence and the binet scales: you can"t define intelligence. Taylor (1994) identified three independent research traditions that have been employed to study the nature of human intelligence: the psychometric approach, the information-processing, and the cognitive approaches: psychometric approach: examines the elemental structure of a test. Following the psychometric approach, we examine the properties of a test through an evaluation of its correlates and underlying dimensions. This is the oldest approach, and is the focus of the chapter. 3: this decision ultimately provided the force behind the development of modern intelligence tests and the heated controversy now associated with them. Binet"s principles of test construction: binet defined intelligence as the capacity, and this was his first step. He was right in this, as defining what you want to measure is usually what you want to start with: 1. To find and maintain a definite direction or purpose: 2.