
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>IMPACT OF INSTRUCTION ON A PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Fleischer, Michael</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>Instructions are an integral part of any exam. The present study examines the effects of instructions to avoid the middle answer on a personality questionnaire. We obtained IRT parameters from participants responding to the 16PF Questionnaire with and without this instruction and used a Monte Carlo simulation based on these parameters. Results indicated that when participants were instructed to avoid the middle response, we observed lower item-total correlations and increased difficulty in setting percentiles. Previous research, implications and limitations of this study are discussed as well.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>M.S. in Psychology, July 2011</dc:description>
  <dc:contributor>Mead, Alan</dc:contributor>
  <dc:date>2011-07</dc:date>
  <dc:date>2011-07</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Thesis</dc:type>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>islandora:7021</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2554</dc:identifier>
  <dc:source>PSYCH / Institute of Psychology</dc:source>
  <dc:source>Illinois Institute of Technology</dc:source>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:rights>In Copyright</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>Restricted Access</dc:rights>
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