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. .
- Part 1: Intro to R (basics)
- Part 2: Intro to R (Reading in Data, dplyr verbs)
- 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