Quantitative Methods Forum

When:
February 23, 2015 @ 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
2015-02-23T10:15:00-05:00
2015-02-23T11:15:00-05:00
Where:
Norm Endler Seminar Room (BSB 164)
Cost:
Free

Speaker: Matthew Sigal, York University
Department of Psychology

Title:  MSCEIT meets MIRT: Assessing the Psychometric Properties of Emotional Intelligence

Abstract: A constant pressure in test publishing is to re-evaluate products and endeavor to improve their psychometric properties with subsequent revisions. As a psychometrician at MHS, I have been responsible for evaluating the structure of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), based upon their large customer database (N = 104,496).  This presentation will summarize the challenges faced during this task, as well as the approaches taken to circumvent some of the issues that presented themselves. Primarily, I will focus on the bifactor nominal item-response theory models that were used to assess the test's performance at the item level and will affect the MSCEIT's future development.