Investigating the 'g'-saturation of various stratum-two factors using automatic item generation

Intelligence

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 574-583

  Arendasy, Martin E ^a   Hergovich, Andreas ^a   Sommer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated item generation; CHC models; Construct representation; g saturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849091709     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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