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Turning the Page on Pen-and-Paper Questionnaires: Combining Ecological Momentary Assessment and Computer Adaptive Testing to Transform Psychological Assessment in the 21st Century
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The current paper describes new opportunities for patient-centred assessment methods which have come about by the increased adoption of affordable smart technologies in biopsychosocial research and medical care. In this paper, we review modern assessment methods including item response theory (IRT), computer adaptive testing (CAT), and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and explain how these methods may be combined to improve psychological assessment. We demonstrate both how a ‘naive’ selection of a small group of items in an EMA can lead to unacceptably unreliable assessments and how IRT can provide detailed information on the individual information that each item gives thus allowing short form assessments to be selected with acceptable reliability. The combination of CAT and IRT can ensures assessments are precise, efficient, and well targeted to the individual; allowing EMAs to be both brief and accurate.
- Subjects :
- Biopsychosocial model
050103 clinical psychology
Rasch model
electronic assessment
Ecology
05 social sciences
ecological momentary assessment
item response theory
patient reported outcomes
Medical care
03 medical and health sciences
rasch analysis
0302 clinical medicine
Item response theory
Assessment methods
Perspective
Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychological testing
030212 general & internal medicine
Computerized adaptive testing
computer adaptive testing
General Psychology
Reliability (statistics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16641078
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....252989e691962dc02912f4cee45de1c1