This study aimed to determine the dimensionality of morphological knowledge by examining different sources variance. According Morphological Pathways Framework (Levesque et al., Journal Research in Reading, 44, 10–26, 2021), awareness, analysis and decoding are related, but distinct dimensions knowledge. However, multidimensionality might also stem from construct-irrelevant variance due methodo...

Article history: Received 21 December 2014 Received in revised form 15 April 2015 Accepted 16 April 2015 Available online 16 May 2015 Individual differences in the broad ability dimension General fluid intelligence (Gf) are typically assessed with visuospatial problem solving tasks, and particularly so among young children. Such tests may, however, contribute construct-irrelevant variance due t...

non-verbal communication (nvc) plays a major role in various aspects of human life (andersen, 2004; cameron, 2001; johnstone, 2008). children learning their first language come to realize non-verbal communication as their socialization process takes place (fletcher & german, 1990; ingram, 1996; owens, 2001). however, most efl learners may have little exposure to these non-verbal aspects of ...

In today's global economy, most people all over the world need to speak a second language (L2) for study, work, or social purposes. Assessment of speaking, either in classroom as an external exam, is therefore important task. However, because its fleeting nature, assessment speaking proficiency difficult. For valid assessment, test must measure without construct-irrelevant variance, instance, d...

The generalizability aspect of Construct validity, as proposed by Messick (1989), requires that a test measures the same trait across different samples from the same population. Differential Item functioning (DIF) analysis is a key component in the fairness evaluation of educational tests. University entrance exam for the candidates who seek admission into master's English programs (MEUEE) at I...

The significant amount of variance in head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) resulting from source location and subject dependencies have led researchers to use principal components analysis (PCA) to approximate HRTFs with a small set of basis functions. PCA minimizes a mean-square error, and consequently may spend modeling effort on perceptually irrelevant properties. To investigate the exten...

Abstract Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (IPVAW) has been defined as a violation of human rights and serious public health problem rooted in social inequality between women men. Nevertheless, significant amount scientific literature on the topic IPVAW continues to exclude gender perspective both research design interpretation results, despite its conceptual explanatory relevance. This p...

People process emotional information using visual, vocal, and verbal cues. However, emotion management is typically assessed with text based rather than multimedia stimuli. This study (N = 427) presents the new multimedia emotion management assessment (MEMA) and compares it to the text-based assessment of emotion management used in the MSCEIT. The text-based and multimedia assessment showed sim...