Training-related changes in solution strategy in a spatial test: An application of item response models
- Author(s)
- Judith Glück, Marco Jirasko, Brigitte Rollett
- Abstract
Item response models were used to study changes in strategy use in a spatial task induced by a mental rotation training. Application of the Linear Logistic Model with Relaxed Assumptions (LLRA) showed differential training-related improvement in different item types, with the strongest improvement in items requiring spatial cognition. Application of Mixed Rasch Models (MRM) showed two latent classes of participants at pretest-one using a spatial strategy, the other using a pattern comparison strategy. Theoretical strategy classifications showed that the training caused almost all participants who used the pattern strategy at pretest to shift to a spatial strategy. Results are discussed both from a substantive and from a methodological perspective. Π2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
- Organisation(s)
- Journal
- Learning and Individual Differences
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 1-22
- No. of pages
- 22
- ISSN
- 1041-6080
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S1041-6080(01)00042-5
- Publication date
- 2008
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 5010 Psychology
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/trainingrelated-changes-in-solution-strategy-in-a-spatial-test-an-application-of-item-response-models(bd6b41f8-08e0-41c1-a7fb-6da6ef3c44ee).html