Conference Presentations:

Complex Constructs and Item Selection

Presentation from AERA 2019 with Karen Nylund-Gibson and Michael Furlong

Using self-report survey items administered to 1,908 high school students, it is shown via latent class analysis with distal outcomes that a researcher would likely come to the same conclusions whether using a one item measure of life satisfaction or several items traditionally used to measure subjective well-being (SWB). This research emphasizes the difficulties of being able to make between-person measurement claims in the realm of self-report surveys, in general.

 

Tutorials and Workshops:

R Workshop - 1 day

In June 2018, I gave a one day “tidyverse and data wrangling in R” workshop at UCSB’s MethodsU. The slides and materials are linked below. .

  1. Part 1: Intro to R (basics)
  2. Part 2: Intro to R (Reading in Data, dplyr verbs)
  3. Part 3: Intro to R, analysis and viz

Data for Workshop

Example Data for MethodsU workshop

 

Research Seminar Presentation

Using mixture models to understand differential item functioning and group constitution.

Design Matrices in TAM (and the MRCML model) - Part 1