Drawing on the work of internationally acclaimed experts in the field, Handbook of Item Response Theory, Volume 3: Applications presents applications of item response theory to practical testing problems.
Includes online access to new, customizable WJ IV score tables, graphs, and forms for clinicians Woodcock-Johnson IV: Reports, Recommendations, and Strategies offers psychologists, clinicians, and educators an essential resource for preparing and writing psychological and educational reports after administering the Woodcock-Johnson IV.
Multiple factor analysis (MFA) enables users to analyze tables of individuals and variables in which the variables are structured into quantitative, qualitative, or mixed groups.
This book explores how music can improve skills that are impaired in some neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), autism, and Rett syndrome.
The most user-friendly and authoritative resource on missing data has been completely revised to make room for the latest developments that make handling missing data more effective.
Textual Statistics with R comprehensively covers the main multidimensional methods in textual statistics supported by a specially-written package in R.
This volume focuses on the abuse of statistical inference in scientific and statistical literature, as well as in a variety of other sources, presenting examples of misused statistics to show that many scientists and statisticians are unaware of, or unwilling to challenge the chaotic state of statistical practices.
The goal of this book is to foster a basic understanding of factor analytic techniques so that readers can use them in their own research and critically evaluate their use by other researchers.
Noted for addressing both the hows and whys of item response theory (IRT), this text has been revised and updated with the latest techniques (multilevel models, mixed models, and more) and software packages.
Preparing Literature Reviews is an accessible guide that provides easy to follow step-by-step advice on how to prepare qualitative and quantitative literature reviews.
Conducting phenomenological research for dissertations can be an involved and challenging process, and writing it up is often the most challenging part.
Persönlichkeitsstörungen erfolgreich mit MBT behandeln- Erfolgreiche Therapiemethode und schulenübergreifendes Konzept zur Behandlung von Persönlichkeitsstörungen- Berücksichtigung neuester Entwicklungen, u.
The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others.
Individuals with serious and persistent mental illnesses, including schizophrenia and affective disorders, often experience cognitive deficits that make it challenging to perform everyday tasks.
One of the greatest changes in the sports world in the past 20 years has been the use of mathematical methods to analyze performances, recognize trends and patterns, and predict results.
This edited book presents the recent developments in partial least squares-path modeling (PLS-PM) and provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the most advanced research related to PLS-PM.
Providing a practical, thorough understanding of how factor analysis works, Foundations of Factor Analysis, Second Edition discusses the assumptions underlying the equations and procedures of this method.
Students can find statistical analysis a challenging and complex task and, in order to master the techniques and complete their assignments and projects successfully, they need to have a sound understanding of IBM SPSS and its functions.
Advances in the Psychobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms features international experts from the fields of psychobiology, sleep research and chronobiology to address and review cutting-edge scientific literature concerning recent advances in the psychobiology of sleep, sleep disorders, such as sleep apnoea and insomnia, and circadian rhythms, across the lifespan.
A Student Guide to Writing an Undergraduate Psychology Honors Thesis takes students through the entire process of creating a full-scale research project, from selecting a topic, choosing an experimental or correlational design, to writing and presenting their paper.
Für die Auswertung empirischer Untersuchungen werden oftmals spezialisierte Verfahren benötigt, die sich für bestimmte Datenmuster und Fragestellungen eignen.
This book explores children's mental health and wellbeing issues using a developmental systems perspective that is grounded on established theoretical frameworks and supported by evidence-based research.
Essentials of DAS-II Assessment is the best source of information on the new edition of the DAS instrument, providing you with illuminating case reports, expert assessment of the test?
Persönlichkeits- oder Differentielle Psychologie – das ist die Wissenschaft von der individuellen Besonderheit des Menschen: Was unterscheidet uns voneinander?
In the burgeoning research literature on adolescents, the relative paucity of work examining ethnic variations in developmental processes is a glaring gap, particularly because approximately one third of American young people now come from an ethnic minority background.
This volume is a compilation of articles that shed light on psychopathology, how the one struggling with it experiences its implications, and how it affects everyday life.
Diagnostisch tätige Psychologinnen und Psychologen stehen häufig vor einer großen Herausforderung, wie sie den je nach Fragestellung spezifischen diagnostischen Prozess gestalten sollten, um eine sachgerechte Empfehlung im Sinne eines Maßnahmenvorschlages geben zu können.
While consumer research is founded on traditional quantitative approaches, the insight produced through qualitative research methods within consumer settings has not gone unnoticed.
This introduction to R for students of psychology and health sciences aims to fast-track the reader through some of the most difficult aspects of learning to do data analysis and statistics.
This book explores how philosophical realisms relate to psychoanalytical conceptions of the Real, and in turn how the Lacanian framework challenges basic philosophical notions of object and reality.
Heinz Wübbena entwickelt auf Grundlage der Feldtheorie ein Beobachtungsmodell, mit dem gruppendynamische Prozesse in Sportspielmannschaften sichtbar gemacht werden können.
Each volume in the Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology features leading methodologists and substantive experts who provide instruction on innovative techniques designed to enhance quantitative skills in a substantive area.
In the last 15 years feedback interventions have had a significant impact on the field of psychotherapy research and have demonstrated their potential to enhance treatment outcomes, especially for patients with an increased risk of treatment failure.
Ziel des Buches ist die Darstellung grundlegender Konzepte der Kulturvergleichenden Psychologie, der kulturvergleichenden empirischen Forschung sowie die Einführung in die Methodik und die methodischen Probleme der kulturvergleichenden Forschung.
