The Structural Validity of the Culture Fair Test under Consideration of the Item-Position Effect

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 182-189

  Troche, Stefan J ^a   Wagner, Felicitas L ^b   Schweizer, Karl ^c   Rammsayer, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture Fair Test; fixed links modeling; inductive reasoning; item position effect; structural validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047502931     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: 21512426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000384     Document Type: Article

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