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Reliability and Structure of the TALIS Social Desirability Scale: An Assessment Based on Item Response Theory
Russian Education and Society. 2017. Vol. 59. No. 3-4. P. 174–194.
One of the ways of controlling for the influence of social expectations on the answers given by survey respondents is to use a social desirability scale together with the main questions. The social desirability scale, which was included in the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) international comparative study for this purpose, was used on a Russian-language sample of teachers without cross-cultural adaptation. In addition, this tool was based on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, whose psychometric characteristics have only been evaluated so far within the framework of classical test theory with mixed results. In order to fill the gap in our understanding of the validity of the TALIS social desirability scale within the framework of item response theory, we analyzed the data obtained from a representative sample of Russian teachers. The results showed that the scale had acceptable reliability, significant unidimensionality, and, at the same time, a number of serious problems with its functionality. We propose measures to improve the quality of the psychometric properties of the scale on the basis of the obtained results, including simulated data. We draw fundamental conclusions about the structure of the social desirability construct.
Musaev A. U., Ankudinov I., Comparative Sociology 2026 Vol. 25 No. 1 P. 42–78
This article explores the impact of employment structure on emancipative values across countries with varying levels of development and cultural sensitivity, particularly focusing on Asian societies. Building upon modernization theory, which traditionally emphasizes economic growth as the primary driver of value change, we introduce and test an alternative hypothesis – that the sectoral composition of ...
Added: March 14, 2026
Gallyamova A., Grigoryev D., Natural Systems of Mind 2025 Vol. 5 No. 1 P. 27–41
This study examines the psychometric properties of the Russian adult version of the Structure of Temperament Questionnaire (STQ-77Ru) within a diverse community sample. Employing both network psychometrics and Item Response Theory (IRT), we analyzed data from 3,442 Russian participants, aged between 18 and 81 years (M = 38, SD = 11). Network psychometrics were used ...
Added: November 1, 2024
Elena Kardanova, Andrei Dementiev, Ilya Denisov et al., Educational studies 2024 Vol. 1 No. 3 P. 45–66
Currently, new skills and various types of "new literacies" relevant to the modern world are becoming issues of growing importance. One of them is economic literacy; however, there are only few assessment instruments that fulfil the academic requirements for its assessment among university students. One of such internationally established instruments is the Test of Understanding ...
Added: October 23, 2024
Т.Н. Канонир, И.Л. Угланова, А.А. Куликова, Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2022 № 4 С. 247–272
Subjective well-being draws attention of both researchers and practitioners. However, there is a lack of tools for assessing subjective well-being in children with proved validity and reliability and suitable for monitoring studies. The purpose of this paper is to present a new Survey of Subjective Well-Being in School and its psychometric characteristics. In particular, the ...
Added: September 14, 2022
Federiakin D., В кн.: Информатизация образования и методика электронного обучения: цифровые технологии в образованииЧ. 2.: Сибирский федеральный университет, 2021. Гл. 66 С. 350–358.
Bifactor models reflect the current popularity of composite tests, which allow for a report of the general and specific test scores. This paper proposes a classification of bifactor models from the item response theory paradigm. The classification is based on four criteria: (1) the number of parameters per item, (2) link function, (3) structure of ...
Added: December 28, 2021
Federiakin D., Uglanova I., Skryabin M., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2021 № 465 С. 179–187
Traditionally, psychometrics is concerned with theory-based information about human behavior – indicators of the targeted construct, like item responses, performance assessment products, etc. However, over the past forty years, advances in psychometric modeling and the development of information technologies allowed for the analysis of the so-called collateral information. This information is not theory-based and easy ...
Added: September 1, 2021
Chernobay E., Ташибаева Д. Н., Вопросы образования 2020 № 4 С. 141–164
The results of the Teaching and Learning International Survey ( TALIS‑2018) of teachers and school leaders are used to compare the teacher professional development systems in Russia and Kazakhstan. In particular, comparative analysis concerns the induction and mentoring programs for beginning teachers, the mechanisms of teacher professional learning, teachers’ needs for professional development, and barriers to the latter. TALIS‑2018 involved over ...
Added: January 12, 2021
Chernobay E., Ташибаева Д. Н., Вопросы образования 2020 № 4 С. 141–164
The results of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS‑2018) of teachers and school leaders are used to compare the teacher professional development systems in Russia and Kazakhstan. In particular, comparative analysis concerns the induction and mentoring programs for beginning teachers, the mechanisms of teacher professional learning, teachers’ needs for professional development, and barriers to ...
Added: December 15, 2020
Tokdemir E., Sedashov E., Ogutcu-Fu S. H. et al., Journal of Conflict Resolution 2021 Vol. 65 No. 4 P. 729–758
How does the presence of multiple combatants affect rebel groups’ ideological and demand positioning? Although violent forms of inter-group conflict have been widely studied in the civil war literature, rebel groups’ strategic use of ideology and demands has received scarce scholarly attention. We argue that the pressure of competition forces rebel groups to differentiate themselves ...
Added: December 6, 2020
Federiakin D., В кн.: Информатизация образования и методика электронного обучения: цифровые технологии в образованииТ. 2.: Красноярск: Библиотечно-издательский комплекс Сибирского федерального университета, 2020. Гл. 45 С. 249–255.
The paper describes the ways to develop a computerized adaptive test using item response times as collateral information. The paper shows that introducing item response times in the measurement model has the same effect on the reliability of computerized adaptive tests as on the reliability of linear tests. Nonetheless, the presence of missing responses may ...
Added: October 28, 2020
Kanonire T., Federiakin D., Uglanova I., School Psychology 2020 Vol. 35 No. 5 P. 321–331
The study proposes a multicomponent model of subjective well-being (SWB) in elementary school. The model includes satisfaction with school, affect toward school, well-being related to communication with peers, and subjective physical well-being. The aim of this study is to verify whether well-being related to different aspects of school life can be explained by a general ...
Added: August 25, 2020
Zolotareva A., Психология. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2020 Т. 17 № 2 С. 191–209
The article presents the results of the development and psychometric analysis of the new psychological Apathy Scale. In three consecutive studies, in which a total of 727 adult Russian-speaking respondents took part, convincing evidence of psychometric consistency of the scale was obtained. In the first study, a preliminary approbation of the Apathy Scale was done, which indicated a homogeneous ...
Added: June 28, 2020
Abbakumov D., Desmet P., Van den Noortgate W., Psychologica Belgica 2020 Vol. 60 No. 1 P. 115–131
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) generate learners’ performance data that can be used to understand learners’ proficiency and to improve their efficiency. However, the approaches currently used, such as assessing the proportion of correct responses in assessments, are oversimplified and may lead to poor conclusions and decisions because they do not account for additional information ...
Added: May 23, 2020
Abbakumov D., Desmet P., Van den Noortgate W., Applied Measurement in Education 2020 Vol. 33 No. 2 P. 113–123
Formative assessments are an important component of massive open online courses (MOOCs), online courses with open access and unlimited student participation. Accurate conclusions on students’ proficiency via formative, however, face several challenges: (a) students are typically allowed to make several attempts; and (b) student performance might be affected by other variables, such as interest. Thus, ...
Added: March 3, 2020
Dominguez Espinosa A., He J., Rosabal-Coto M. et al., , in: Venture into cross-cultural psychology: Proceedings from the 23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.: IACCP, 2018. P. 1–12.
Cross-cultural differences in Social Desirability (SD) could be partly due to the nonequivalence of constructs, items, or other challenges of cross-cultural research. We tested to what extent a Mexican, indigenous scale of SD, capturing both positive and negative features of SD, would be useful in other countries. Data were collected in convenience samples in eight ...
Added: October 26, 2018
Chirkina T., Khavenson T., Russian Education and Society 2018 Vol. 60 No. 2 P. 133–160
School climate is one of the significant factors determining educational achievement. However, the lack of instruments to measure it has complicated the study of this concept in Russia. We review the history of the study of the concept of “school climate,” and we discuss approaches to how it can be defined. We describe the most ...
Added: April 29, 2018
Abbakumov D., Лебедева М. Ю., Русский язык за рубежом 2016 № 5 С. 73–78
The paper describes the experience of development, validation and psychometric analysis of Russian as foreign language placement test (grammar and vocabulary part). The aim of the study was to measure the validity of the placement test, which was designed strictly according to the standards of Russian as a foreign language proficiency levels. During the psychometric ...
Added: March 10, 2017
Maksimenkova O. V., В кн.: Новое в науке и образовании: Ежегодная международная научно-практическая конференция.: М.: МАКС Пресс, 2016. С. 268–272.
Basic test theories are taken into consideration: classical test theory, item response theory, and testlet response theory. The
theories’ development is presented in the technological context of information revolution of 20th century. The current application
bounds of these theories are evaluated. ...
Added: January 12, 2017
Tyumeneva Y. A., Kapuza A., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2016 № 16 С. 14–29
One way to take control over the effect of social desirability on respondent answers is to introduce social desirability scales into questionnaire. Social desirability scale included into the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and used for the Russian-speaking sample of teachers was not cross-culturally adapted. Besides that, this tool is based on the Marlowe-Crowne ...
Added: December 29, 2016