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ERIC Number: EJ1129469
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 31
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ISSN: ISSN-1530-5058
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Evaluating the Impact of Careless Responding on Aggregated-Scores: To Filter Unmotivated Examinees or Not?
Rios, Joseph A.; Guo, Hongwen; Mao, Liyang; Liu, Ou Lydia
International Journal of Testing, v17 n1 p74-104 2017
When examinees' test-taking motivation is questionable, practitioners must determine whether careless responding is of practical concern and if so, decide on the best approach to filter such responses. As there has been insufficient research on these topics, the objectives of this study were to: a) evaluate the degree of underestimation in the true mean when careless responses are present, and b) compare the effectiveness of two filtering procedures in purifying biased aggregated-scores. Results demonstrated that: a) the true mean was underestimated by around 0.20 "SDs" if the total amount of careless responses exceeded 6.25%, 12.5%, and 12.5% for easy, moderately difficult, and difficult tests, respectively, and b) listwise deleting data from unmotivated examinees artificially inflated the true mean by as much as 0.42 "SDs" when ability was related to careless responding. Findings from this study have implications for when and how practitioners should handle careless responses for group-based low-stakes assessments.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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