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.