Selected ICAR Data from the SAPA-Project: Development and Initial Validation of a Public-Domain Measure

David M Condon,William Revelle

doi:10.5334/jopd.25

Abstract

These data were collected during the initial evaluation of the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR) project. ICAR is an international collaborative effort to develop open-source public-domain tools for cognitive ability assessment, including tools that can be administered in non-proctored environments (e.g., online administration) and those which are based on automatic item generation algorithms. These data provide initial validation of the first four ICAR item types as reported in Condon & Revelle [1]. The 4 item types contain a total of 60 items: 9 Letter and Number Series items, 11 Matrix Reasoning items, 16 Verbal Reasoning items and 24 Three-dimensional Rotation items. Approximately 97,000 individuals were administered random subsets of these 60 items using the Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment method between August 18, 2010 and May 20, 2013. The data are available in rdata and csv formats and are accompanied by documentation stored as a text file. Re-use potential includes a wide range of structural and item-level analyses.

Highlights

The SAPA Project is a collaborative online data collection tool for assessing psychological constructs across multiple domains of personality
2 Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, US revelle@northwestern.edu. These data were collected during the initial evaluation of the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR) project
ICAR is an international collaborative effort to develop open-source public-domain tools for cognitive ability assessment, including tools that can be administered in non-proctored environments and those which are based on automatic item generation algorithms

Summary

DATA PAPER

Selected ICAR Data from the SAPA-Project: Development and Initial Validation of a Public-Domain Measure These data were collected during the initial evaluation of the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR) project. ICAR is an international collaborative effort to develop open-source public-domain tools for cognitive ability assessment, including tools that can be administered in non-proctored environments (e.g., online administration) and those which are based on automatic item generation algorithms. These data provide initial validation of the first four ICAR item types as reported in Condon & Revelle [1]. (1) Overview Collection Date(s) Data were collected between August 18, 2010 and May 20, 2013

Background

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Graduate or professional school degree

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