Rasch Meta-Metres of Growth for Some Intelligence and Attainment Tests

This book discusses the application of Rasch's approach for quantifying growth on intellectual variables, which requires constructing measurements in a constant unit over the relevant range of the variable. It illustrates this approach with six intellectual variables and shows that deceleration on a quantitative scale also holds for the growth in intellectual variables, with implications for understanding intellectual development.

Format: Hardback
Length: 241 pages
Publication date: 13 September 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This book extends Rasch's approach for quantifying growth on physiological variables, where growth decelerates, to intellectual variables. To apply this approach, it is necessary to construct measurements in a constant unit over the relevant range of the variable. With such measurements, the book illustrates the approach to quantifying growth on six intellectual variables: two intelligence tests and two each of tests of proficiencies in reading comprehension and mathematics. The book discusses how it is not immediately obvious that deceleration on a quantitative scale should also hold for the growth in intellectual variables. It goes on to show that this is indeed the case with all six tests analyzed and considers some implications of this feature for understanding intellectual development, in particular, the centrality of the growth trajectory set in early life.

This book extends Rasch's approach for quantifying growth on physiological variables, where growth decelerates, to intellectual variables.

To apply this approach, it is necessary to construct measurements in a constant unit over the relevant range of the variable.

With such measurements, the book illustrates the approach to quantifying growth on six intellectual variables: two intelligence tests and two each of tests of proficiencies in reading comprehension and mathematics.

The book discusses how it is not immediately obvious that deceleration on a quantitative scale should also hold for the growth in intellectual variables.

It goes on to show that this is indeed the case with all six tests analyzed and considers some implications of this feature for understanding intellectual development, in particular, the centrality of the growth trajectory set in early life.

Weight: 613g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789819946921
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023