Research Talk: Response Process as a Source of Validity Evidence
Time: 11am-12pm, October 25, 2018 (Thursday)
Location: Scarfe Library Block Room 278
Moderator: Vicki Knight (Assistant Professor, Special Education, ECPS)
Speaker:
Anita Hubley (Professor, MERM, ECPS)
Abstract:
What are people doing, thinking, or feeling when completing measures or tasks? Response processes are an opportunity for us to better understand the meaning of scores. Dr. Hubley will discuss what response processes are (and are not), their importance, the current state of response processes research, and how to examine this source of validity evidence. Hubley and Zumbo (2017) is a good chapter to set the tone for this talk. You can download the chapter from here.
September 2016, Society Opening and Journal Paper Discussion
“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” by John P.A. Ioannidis (2005)
October 2016, Journal Paper Discussion
“Understanding and Using Mediators and Moderators” by Amery D. Wu and Bruno D. Zumbo (2008)
November 2016, Research Presentations
Making Causal Inference: Studies Using Mediation Models or Randomized Controlled Trial Design
January 2017, Future of Hypothesis Testing, p values?
Since Basic and Applied Social Psychology (BASP) journal banned p values and significance hypothesis testing from their published papers, there have been a lot of debates and discussions around the p-value.
The editorial from BASP is attached here.
Greenland and his colleagues’ paper “Statistical tests, p values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations” is a good reference, which is attached here. Please join us for a fun and informative discussion.
The PowerPoint from the talk can be found here.
February 2017, Navigating the choppy waters of hypothesis testing
A good reference paper “A manifesto for reproducible science” by Munafo al. et (2017) is attached here.
The PowerPoint and the journal paper by Zumbo and Kroc (2016) are attached here.
March 2017, Research Presentations
Moderator: Michelle Chen (Ph.D. candidate, MERM)
Do the multiple choices of a test question mean the same to different people?
By Minjeong Park
Psychometric investigation of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Methodological challenges and potential solutions
By Oscar Olvera