Publications

In this section you will find publications by Dr. Jay Powell and others that are related to our research results and analysis methods.  Response Spectrum Analysis Interpretation (RSAI) is now being referred to as Response Spectrum Evaluation (RSE).

Jay Powell and Allan P. Clapp, Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, USA. “Comparing Response Spectrum Analysis Interpretation (RSAI) of test results with Item Response Theory (IRT) and Differential Item Functioning (DIF) using the same test data,” July 24, 2009.

www.thepsychometricscentre.com/page/211/developing-scales-41.htm

James C. Powell, “Testing as Feedback; Applying and Interpreting Response Spectrum Analysis and Interpretation (RSE),” Presentation, IADIS-CELDA Conference in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, October 13, 2008

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James C. Powell: “Observing Learning Using All Answers: A Commentary on Test-Scoring Practices,” Presentation for the 73rd Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS 2008, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH), July 1, 2008.

Please See www.psychometrika.org/meeting/2008/program.pdf for details.

Powell, J. C. "Multinomial Analysis and its Applications in Health Care Education and Research," Second WorldVista Education Seminar, RMU, Moon Township, PA, May 2008

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Powell, J. C. and Shklov, N. (1992) Obtaining information about learners’ thinking strategies from wrong answers on multiple-choice tests, The Journal of Educational and Psychological Measurement, 52, 847-865.

Regarding Jay Powell’s presentation at the Psychometric Society 54th Annual Meeting July 6-9, 1989.

Please see: www.springerlink.com/content/87264610018m6518

Powell, J. C. and Miki, H. (1985) Answer anomalies, how serious? Paper presented to the Psychometric Society 50th Anniversary Meeting, Nashville, TN.

Regarding Jay Powell’s and Norm Shklov’s presentation at the Joint meeting of the Classification Society and the Psychometric Society June 25–27, 1984 University of California Santa Barbara, California.

Please see: www.springerlink.com/content/m503140064816516

Powell, J. C. (1977) The developmental sequence of cognition as revealed by wrong answers, Alberta Journal of Educational Research XXIII (1) 43 – 51. Table 2 is reproduced with slight modification from page 46.

Powell, J. C. (1968) The interpretation of wrong answers from a multiple-choice test, Educational and Psychological Measurement 28, 403 – 412.