Major breakthrough in ipsative test scoring methodology
The 2011 Best Doctoral Dissertations Prize from the Psychometric Society was awarded to Dr Anna Brown of The University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. The thesis, entitled “How Item Response Theory can solve problems of ipsative data”, was carried out at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Professor Alberto Maydeu-Olivares. The prize was awarded at the 17th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Hong Kong in July 2011.
Anna and Alberto's approach is mind-boggling, and resolves a longstanding and sometimes acrimonious debate in the field of ipsative testing. A psychometric test is ipsative if respondents are required to compare two or more options and pick the one that is most preferred.
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