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. 2022 Jun 17:13:892317.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.892317. eCollection 2022.

The Role of Response Times on the Measurement of Mental Ability

Georgios Sideridis  1   2 , Maisaa Taleb S Alahmadi  3   4
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The Role of Response Times on the Measurement of Mental Ability

Georgios Sideridis et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

The goal of the present study was to evaluate the roles of response times in the achievement of students in the following latent ability domains: (a) verbal, (b) math and spatial reasoning, (c) mental flexibility, and (d) scientific and mechanical reasoning. Participants were 869 students who took on the Multiple Mental Aptitude Scale. A mixture item response model was implemented to evaluate the roles of response times in performance by modeling ability and non-ability classes. Results after applying this model to the data across domains indicated the presence of several behaviors related to rapid responding which were covaried with low achievement likely representing unsuccessful guessing attempts.

Keywords: 2PL; 3PL; item response theory; latent class analysis; response time.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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FIGURE 1
Total information curves (TIF) and conditional standard errors of measurement (CSEM) for each domain of the measure.
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Two class model for the measurement of the 4-latent variable model of ability.
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