Rasch analysis as a technique to examine the psychometric properties of a career ability placement survey subtest

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 251-259

  Pomeranz, Jamie L ^a   Byers, Katherine L ^b   Moorhouse, Michael D ^a   Velozo, Craig A ^a   Spitznagel, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Veterans Health Administration

Author keywords

Assessment measurement; Career vocational assessment; Rehabilitation research design methodology statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349102208     PISSN: 00343552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0034355208317317     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Barley, E., & Jones, P. (2006). Repeatability of a Rasch model of the AQ20 over five assessments. Quality of Life Research, 15 (5). 801-809.
2. Bond, T.G., & Fox, C.M. (2001). Applying the Rasch model: Fundamental measurement in the human sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
3. Bouman, T.K., & Kok, A.R. (1987). Homogeneity of Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI): Applying Rasch analysis in conceptual exploration. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 76 (5). 568-573.
4. Chang, C. (1996). Finding two dimensions in MMPI-2 Depression. Structural Equation Modeling, 3 (1). 41-49.
5. Conrad, K., & Smith, E. (2004). International conference on objective measurement applications of Rasch analysis in health care. Medical Care, 42, I - 1 -I-6.
6. Duncan, P.W., Bode, R.K., Lai, S.M., & Perera, S. (2003). Rasch analysis of a new stroke-specific outcome scale: The Stroke Impact Scale. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 84, 950-963.
7. Haley, S.M., McHorney, C.A., & Ware, J.E., Jr. (1994). Evaluation of the MOS SF-36 physical functioning scale (PF-10): Unidimensionality and reproducibility of the Rasch item scale. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 47, 671-684.
8. Hambleton, R.K. (2000). Response to Hays et al. and McHorney and Cohen: Emergence of item response modeling in instrument development and data analysis. Medical Care, 38, 60-65.
9. Hays, R.D., Morales, L.S., & Reise, S.P. (2000). Item response theory and health outcomes measurement in the 21st century. Medical Care, 38, 28-42.
10. Knapp, L., & Knapp, R.R. (1992). Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS). San Diego, CA: EDITS.
11. Knapp, L., Knapp, R.R., & Michael, W.B. (1977). Stability and concurrent validity of the Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS) against the DAT and GATB. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 37, 1081-1085.
12. Knapp, L., Knapp, R.R., Strnad, L., & Michael, W.B. (1978). Comparative validity of the Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS) and the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) for predicting high school marks. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 38, 1053-1056.
13. Kornetti, D.L., Fritz, S.L., Chiu, Y.P., Light, K.E., & Velozo, C.A. (2004). Rating scale analysis of the Berg Balance Scale. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85 (7). 1128-1135.
14. Linacre, J.M. (1994). Sample size and item calibration stability. Rasch Measurement Transactions, 7 (4). 328.
15. Linacre, J.M. (2002). What do infit and outfit, mean-square and standardized mean ? Rasch Measurement Transactions, 16 (2). 878.
16. Linacre, J.M., Heinemann, A.W., Wright, B.D., Granger, C.V., & Hamilton, B.B. (1994). The structure and stability of the Functional Independence Measure. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 75 (2). 127-132.
17. Merbitz, C., Morris, J., & Grip, J.C. (1989). Ordinal scales and foundations of misinference. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 70, 303-313.
18. Ruch, F.L., & Ruch, W.W. (1963). Employee Aptitude Survey technical report. Los Angeles: Psychological Service s.
19. Van der Ven, A.H.G.S., & Ellis, J.L. (2000). A Rasch analysis of Raven's standard progressive matrices. Personality and Individual Differences, 29 (1). 45-64.
20. Velozo, C.A., Kielhofner, G., & Lai, J.-S. (1999). Quantitative research series-The use of Rasch analysis to produce scale-free measurement of functional ability. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 53, 83-90.
21. Velozo, C.A., Magalhaes, L., Pan, A., & Leiter, P. (1995). Differences in functional scale discrimination at admission and discharge: Rasch analysis of the Level of Rehabilitation Scale-III (LORS-III). Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 76, 705-712.
22. Velozo, C.A., & Peterson, E.W. (2001). Developing meaningful fear of falling measures for community dwelling elderly. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 80, 662-673.
23. Wright, B.D., & Linacre, J.M. (1989). Observations are always ordinal: Measure, however, must be interval. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 70, 857-860.
24. Wright, B.D., & Linacre, J.M. (1994). Reasonable mean-square fit values. Rasch Measurement Transactions, 8 (3). 370.
25. Wright, B.D., & Linacre, J.M. (2001). WINSTEPS: A Rasch model computer program (version 3.1) [Computer software]. Chicago: Mesa Press.
26. Wright, B.D., & Masters, G.N. (1982). Rating scale analysis. Chicago: Mesa Press.