Fritz Drasgow
Biographic Data
| ID | 204041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fritz Drasgow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fritz |
| FAMILY NAME | Drasgow |
| SIGNATURE | DRASGOW F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9918-4556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Small but Nontrivial: A Comparison of Six Strategies to Handle Cross-Loadings in Bifactor Predictive Models
The bifactor model is a promising alternative to traditional modeling techniques for studying the predictive validity of hierarchical constructs. However, no study to date has systematically examined the influence of cross-loadings on the estimation of regression coefficients in bifactor predictive models. Therefore, we present a systematic examination of the statistical performance of six modeling strategies to handle cross-loadings in bifactor …
Misfit matters: A re-examination of interest fit and job satisfaction
Vocational interest researchers have long held that individuals will be satisfied when their interests match the characteristics of their work environments. Yet, meta-analyses have found little relationship between interest fit and overall job satisfaction. Notably, studies underlying past meta-analyses shared common limitations. They rarely accounted for unique forms of misfit (environmental excess and deficiency) or differences between fit at l…
Nonparametric Calibration of Item-by-Attribute Matrix in Cognitive Diagnosis
A nonparametric technique based on the Hamming distance is proposed in this research by recognizing that once the attribute vector is known, or correctly estimated with high probability, one can determine the item-by-attribute vectors for new items undergoing calibration. We consider the setting where Q is known for a large item bank, and the q-vectors of additional items are estimated. The method is studied in simulation under a wide variety of …
Intelligence and the Workplace
During the past century, intelligence has been studied extensively and has generated a great deal of controversy. This chapter reviews three general approaches to the study of intelligence. The first, relying on factor analysis and related methods, seeks to understand the latent structure of intelligence. The general factor of intelligence, g, has its roots in this approach. Information processing models comprise the second approach to the study …
Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of Over 60 Years of Research
Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in the employee selection literature. Nevertheless, theoretical descriptions of vocational interests from vocational and educational psychology have proposed that interest constructs should be related to performance and persistence in work and academic settings. Moreover, on…
Adjusting the Adjusted χ 2 / df Ratio Statistic for Dichotomous Item Response Theory Analyses: Does the Model Fit
Two Monte Carlo simulation studies investigated the effectiveness of the mean adjusted χ 2 / df statistic proposed by Drasgow and colleagues and, because of problems with the method, a new approach for assessing the goodness of fit of an item response theory model was developed. It has been previously recommended that mean adjusted χ 2 / df values greater than 3 using a cross-validation data set indicate substantial misfit. The authors used simul…
Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Types of Change: An Analysis of the Malleability of General and Specific Self-Efficacy Constructs and Measures
In this research, the authors present theoretical explanations for quantitative and qualitative types of changes to evaluate the malleability of general self-efficacy (GSE) and specific self-efficacy (SSE) measures due to domain-specific training. First, the authors hypothesize that the change in the GSE measure due to sales training is a quantitative mean-difference (alpha) change. Second, they hypothesize that the change in SSE due to sales tra…
Job Performance as Multivariate Dynamic Criteria: Experience Sampling and Multiway Component Analysis
Questions about the dynamic processes that drive behavior at work have been the focus of increasing attention in recent years. Models describing behavior at work and research on momentary behavior indicate that substantial variation exists within individuals. This article examines the rationale behind this body of work and explores a method of analyzing momentary work behavior using experience sampling methods. The article also examines a previou…
Oxford handbook of personality assessment
In Harm's Way: Factors Related to Psychological Distress Following Sexual Harassment
The negative consequences for victims of sexual harassment are well documented. However, one area unexamined is the process that leads to harm. Researchers have proposed three influences (i.e., objective or stimulus factors, individual factors, and contextual factors) on the psychological, health-related, and organizational outcomes of sexual harassment. This article examines the relative contribution of these influences on psychological distress…
Detecting differential item functioning with confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory: Toward a unified strategy.
In this article, the authors developed a common strategy for identifying differential item functioning (DIF) items that can be implemented in both the mean and covariance structures method (MACS) and item response theory (IRT). They proposed examining the loadings (discrimination) and the intercept (location) parameters simultaneously using the likelihood ratio test with a free-baseline model and Bonferroni corrected critical p values. They compa…
Personality assessment: Does the medium matter? No
Psychological Testing on the Internet: New Problems, Old Issues
The Internet has significantly changed the way people conduct business, communicate, and live. In this article, the authors' focus is on how the Internet influences the practice of psychology as it relates to testing and assessment. The report includes 5 broad sections: background and context, new problems yet old issues, issues for special populations, ethical and professional issues, and recommendations for the future. Special attention is paid…
Toward a theory of individual differences and leadership: Understanding the motivation to lead.
A broad, integrative theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between individual differences and various leader behaviors is presented; it proposes a new individual-differences construct called the motivation to lead (MTL). A large-scale study using 3 samples in different occupational and cultural contexts shows 3 factors underlying MTL, namely, affective-identity, noncalculative, and social-normative MTL. A parsimonious model of …
Fitting Item Response Theory Models to Two Personality Inventories: Issues and Insights
The present study compared the fit of several IRT models to two personality assessment instruments. Data from 13,059 individuals responding to the US-English version of the Fifth Edition of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and 1,770 individuals responding to Goldberg's 50 item Big Five Personality measure were analyzed. Various issues pertaining to the fit of the IRT models to personality data were considered. We examined two o…
The empowering leadership questionnaire: The construction and validation of a new scale for measuring leader behaviors
This paper describes the construction and empirical evaluation of a new scale for measuring empowering leader behavior. Study One consisted of thorough interviews with external leaders and team members in three organizations. Behaviors elicited in the interviews were classified by researchers into eight categories of leader empowering behavior and the Empowering Leadership Questionnaire (ELQ) was constructed to measure each of these categories. I…
Measuring Sexual Harassment in the Military: The Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ—DoD)
The harassment of women in the military is receiving increased attention from both policymakers and the popular media. Stimulated originally by the Navy's Tailhook episode in 1991, and more recently by revelations of widespread sexual harassment of female Army recruits, there appears to be a growing consensus that the harassment of female military personnel is a problem with profound consequences for both individuals and the armed services more g…
Ambient Sexual Harassment: An Integrated Model of Antecedents and Consequences
Organizational Influences on Sexual Harassment
Measuring Sexual Harassment: Theoretical and Psychometric Advances
This article describes a program of research designed to yield a conceptually grounded, psychometrically sound instrument for assessing the incidence and prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace. Following the specification of a theoretical framework that is consistent with both legal guidelines and psychological research, we review the development and evaluation of a three-dimensional model of sexual harassment (gender harassment, unwant…
The Structure of Sexual Harassment: A Confirmatory Analysis across Cultures and Settings
Some Comments on Labouvie and Ruetsch
An Empirical Comparison of the Area Methods, Lord'S Chi-Square Test, and the Mantel-Haenszel Technique for Assessing Differential Item Functioning
Data from a 45-item vocabulary test (tryout edition) were used to assess the degree of congruence between the signed area measure, the unsigned area measure, Lord's chi-square statistic, and the Mantel-Haenszel (MH) technique in identifying items with significant differential item functioning (DIF). In both the Black-White and Female-Male comparisons, the three methods based on item response theory (IRT) identified the same items as having statis…
Equivalence of computerized and paper-and-pencil cognitive ability tests: A meta-analysis
The effects of the medium of test administration-paper and pencil versus computerized-were examined for timed power and speeded tests of cognitive abilities for populations of young adults and adults. Meta-analytic techniques were used to estimate the cross-mode correlation after correcting for measurement error. A total of 159 correlations was meta-analyzed: 123 from timed power tests and 36 from speeded tests. The corrected cross-mode correlati…
Psychometrics and graduate education
Relation between Self-Esteem and Delinquent Behavior in Three Ethnic Groups: An Application of Item Response Theory
The hypothesis that low levels of self-esteem are related to high frequencies of delinquent behaviors was examined in three ethnic groups in the United States (blacks, whites, and hispanics). Item response theory was first used to assess the measurement equivalence of a 10-item self-esteem scale and a 7-item delinquent behavior scale across the three groups. Two biased items from the self-esteem scale were eliminated, and the relation between the…
Personality assessment: Does the medium matter? No
Psychological Testing on the Internet: New Problems, Old Issues
The Internet has significantly changed the way people conduct business, communicate, and live. In this article, the authors' focus is on how the Internet influences the practice of psychology as it relates to testing and assessment. The report includes 5 broad sections: background and context, new problems yet old issues, issues for special populations, ethical and professional issues, and recommendations for the future. Special attention is paid…
Equivalence of computerized and paper-and-pencil cognitive ability tests: A meta-analysis
The effects of the medium of test administration-paper and pencil versus computerized-were examined for timed power and speeded tests of cognitive abilities for populations of young adults and adults. Meta-analytic techniques were used to estimate the cross-mode correlation after correcting for measurement error. A total of 159 correlations was meta-analyzed: 123 from timed power tests and 36 from speeded tests. The corrected cross-mode correlati…
Scrutinizing psychological tests: Measurement equivalence and equivalent relations with external variables are the central issues
Analysis of the Modernity Scale: An Item Response Theory Approach
This article introduces item response theory as a method to test and improve the cross-cultural scalar equivalence of a psychological measurement instrument. A comparison of American Hispanics and Mainstream Americans on the dimension of modernity is also reported. The 25-item Overall Modernity Scale (Inkeles & Smith, 1974) was administered to 432 Hispanic and Mainstream navy recruits. Consistent with previous research, the scale was found to hav…
In Harm's Way: Factors Related to Psychological Distress Following Sexual Harassment
The negative consequences for victims of sexual harassment are well documented. However, one area unexamined is the process that leads to harm. Researchers have proposed three influences (i.e., objective or stimulus factors, individual factors, and contextual factors) on the psychological, health-related, and organizational outcomes of sexual harassment. This article examines the relative contribution of these influences on psychological distress…
New time-series statistic for detecting rhythmic co-occurrence in the frequency domain: The weighted coherence and its application to psychophysiological research
Biased test items and differential validity
New time-series statistic for detecting rhythmic co-occurrence in the frequency domain: The weighted coherence and its application to psychophysiological research
Biased test items and differential validity
Biased test items and differential validity
The Relation between Incorrect Option Choice and Estimated Ability
The relation between incorrect option choice and estimated ability level was examined for two widely used aptitude tests, the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the Graduate Record Examination. Incorrect option choice was found to be related to estimated ability for many items. Implications of these findings are briefly discussed
Analysis of the Modernity Scale: An Item Response Theory Approach
This article introduces item response theory as a method to test and improve the cross-cultural scalar equivalence of a psychological measurement instrument. A comparison of American Hispanics and Mainstream Americans on the dimension of modernity is also reported. The 25-item Overall Modernity Scale (Inkeles & Smith, 1974) was administered to 432 Hispanic and Mainstream navy recruits. Consistent with previous research, the scale was found to hav…
Scrutinizing psychological tests: Measurement equivalence and equivalent relations with external variables are the central issues
Scrutinizing psychological tests: Measurement equivalence and equivalent relations with external variables are the central issues
Appropriateness measurement with polychotomous item response models and standardized indices
The test scores of some examinees on a multiple choice test may not provide satisfactory measures of their abilities. The goal of appropriateness measurement is to identify such individuals. Earlier theoretical and experimental work considered examinees answering all, or almost all, test items. This article reports research that extends appropriateness measurement methods to examinees with moderately high non‐response rates. These methods treat n…
Illinois Classroom Assessment Profile: Development of the Instrument
This article describes the development of a teacher rating scale that is sensitive to a select group of behavior disorders exhibited by children in the classroom. The scale, the Illinois Classroom Assessment Profile (ICAP), was developed to distinguish among behavioral dimensions representing sustained attention, impulsivity, conduct, fine motor coordination, and evaluative anxiety. The fact that disorders in these behaviors are observed in child…
Psychometrics and graduate education
Psychometrics and graduate education
Relation between Self-Esteem and Delinquent Behavior in Three Ethnic Groups: An Application of Item Response Theory
The hypothesis that low levels of self-esteem are related to high frequencies of delinquent behaviors was examined in three ethnic groups in the United States (blacks, whites, and hispanics). Item response theory was first used to assess the measurement equivalence of a 10-item self-esteem scale and a 7-item delinquent behavior scale across the three groups. Two biased items from the self-esteem scale were eliminated, and the relation between the…
An Empirical Comparison of the Area Methods, Lord'S Chi-Square Test, and the Mantel-Haenszel Technique for Assessing Differential Item Functioning
Data from a 45-item vocabulary test (tryout edition) were used to assess the degree of congruence between the signed area measure, the unsigned area measure, Lord's chi-square statistic, and the Mantel-Haenszel (MH) technique in identifying items with significant differential item functioning (DIF). In both the Black-White and Female-Male comparisons, the three methods based on item response theory (IRT) identified the same items as having statis…
Equivalence of computerized and paper-and-pencil cognitive ability tests: A meta-analysis
The effects of the medium of test administration-paper and pencil versus computerized-were examined for timed power and speeded tests of cognitive abilities for populations of young adults and adults. Meta-analytic techniques were used to estimate the cross-mode correlation after correcting for measurement error. A total of 159 correlations was meta-analyzed: 123 from timed power tests and 36 from speeded tests. The corrected cross-mode correlati…
Measuring Sexual Harassment: Theoretical and Psychometric Advances
This article describes a program of research designed to yield a conceptually grounded, psychometrically sound instrument for assessing the incidence and prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace. Following the specification of a theoretical framework that is consistent with both legal guidelines and psychological research, we review the development and evaluation of a three-dimensional model of sexual harassment (gender harassment, unwant…
The Structure of Sexual Harassment: A Confirmatory Analysis across Cultures and Settings
Some Comments on Labouvie and Ruetsch
Organizational Influences on Sexual Harassment
Ambient Sexual Harassment: An Integrated Model of Antecedents and Consequences
Measuring Sexual Harassment in the Military: The Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ—DoD)
The harassment of women in the military is receiving increased attention from both policymakers and the popular media. Stimulated originally by the Navy's Tailhook episode in 1991, and more recently by revelations of widespread sexual harassment of female Army recruits, there appears to be a growing consensus that the harassment of female military personnel is a problem with profound consequences for both individuals and the armed services more g…
The empowering leadership questionnaire: The construction and validation of a new scale for measuring leader behaviors
This paper describes the construction and empirical evaluation of a new scale for measuring empowering leader behavior. Study One consisted of thorough interviews with external leaders and team members in three organizations. Behaviors elicited in the interviews were classified by researchers into eight categories of leader empowering behavior and the Empowering Leadership Questionnaire (ELQ) was constructed to measure each of these categories. I…
Toward a theory of individual differences and leadership: Understanding the motivation to lead.
A broad, integrative theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between individual differences and various leader behaviors is presented; it proposes a new individual-differences construct called the motivation to lead (MTL). A large-scale study using 3 samples in different occupational and cultural contexts shows 3 factors underlying MTL, namely, affective-identity, noncalculative, and social-normative MTL. A parsimonious model of …
Fitting Item Response Theory Models to Two Personality Inventories: Issues and Insights
The present study compared the fit of several IRT models to two personality assessment instruments. Data from 13,059 individuals responding to the US-English version of the Fifth Edition of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and 1,770 individuals responding to Goldberg's 50 item Big Five Personality measure were analyzed. Various issues pertaining to the fit of the IRT models to personality data were considered. We examined two o…
Psychological Testing on the Internet: New Problems, Old Issues
The Internet has significantly changed the way people conduct business, communicate, and live. In this article, the authors' focus is on how the Internet influences the practice of psychology as it relates to testing and assessment. The report includes 5 broad sections: background and context, new problems yet old issues, issues for special populations, ethical and professional issues, and recommendations for the future. Special attention is paid…
Detecting differential item functioning with confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory: Toward a unified strategy.
In this article, the authors developed a common strategy for identifying differential item functioning (DIF) items that can be implemented in both the mean and covariance structures method (MACS) and item response theory (IRT). They proposed examining the loadings (discrimination) and the intercept (location) parameters simultaneously using the likelihood ratio test with a free-baseline model and Bonferroni corrected critical p values. They compa…
Psychology (33 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Mathematics (19 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Statistics (15 works) · Psychometrics (13 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Psychometric Methodologies and Testing (12 works) · Econometrics (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works)