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Cognitive and Psychometric Analysis of Analogical Problem Solving

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Isaac I. Bejar

    1. Division of Education Policy Research, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA

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  2. Roger Chaffin

    1. Trenton State College, Trenton, USA

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  3. Susan Embretson

    1. University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Research in Psychology (PSYCHOLOGY)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 1-6

  3. Theories of Memory Representation and Analogical Reasoning

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 7-54

  4. A Taxonomy of Semantic Relations

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 55-91

  5. Description of the Item Pool

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 93-117

  6. The Effect of Vocabulary Level and Rationale Complexity on Item Difficulty

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 119-135

  7. The Relationship Between Delta and r-Biserial

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 137-151

  8. Expert Analyses of Analogy Items

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 153-168

  9. Cognitive Processing and Item Difficulty

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 169-186

  10. Cross Validation: Analysis of Pretested Items

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 187-201

  11. Summary and Conclusions

    • Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson
    Pages 203-210

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 211-237
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About this book

If one were to conduct an analysis of any profession the "ability to think analogically" is more than likely to be one of the requirements for success, be it an architectural studio, a research laboratory, a legal office, or a nuclear plant. Cognitive scientists are aware of the prominence of analogical reasoning in all forms of reasoning and learning, and have devoted substantial effort to ascer­ taining its nature. Test builders, like cognitive scientists, are aware of the cen­ trality of analogical reasoning and figure, correctly, that a test that samples a student's ability to think analogically may well be a good predictor of success in a variety of fields. This book is the result of a project to investigate analogical reasoning from both an individual differences and a cognitive perspective. The book is directed to both researchers and practitioners concerned with the nature and measurement of analogical reasoning. Cognitive scientists, linguists, psycholinguists, and natural language researchers will find the seman­ tic taxonomy and accompanying empirical results food for thought. Test devel­ opers will fmd it reassuring that performance on verbal analogy items is not just a reflection of the size of a person's vocabulary, and that tests can be designed according to principles, rather than assembled to satisfy a set of statistical speci­ fications. Psychometricians will find that content and response modelling can go together and that there are distinct benefits in approaching psychometric re­ sponse modelling from that integrative perspective.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Division of Education Policy Research, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, USA

    Isaac I. Bejar

  • Trenton State College, Trenton, USA

    Roger Chaffin

  • University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

    Susan Embretson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cognitive and Psychometric Analysis of Analogical Problem Solving

  • Authors: Isaac I. Bejar, Roger Chaffin, Susan Embretson

  • Series Title: Recent Research in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9690-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97321-0Published: 12 November 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9690-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7532

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 237

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Psychoanalysis

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