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Browsing Georgia Tech School of Psychology Faculty Publications by Subject "Cognitive psychology"

Browsing Georgia Tech School of Psychology Faculty Publications by Subject "Cognitive psychology"

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  • Cognitive Design Principles and the Successful Performer: A Study on Spatial Ability 
    Embretson, Susan E. (Georgia Institute of TechnologyWiley-Blackwell, 1996)
    An important trend in educational measurement is the use of principles of cognitive psychology to design achievement and ability test items. Many studies show that manipulating the stimulus features of items influences ...
  • Improving Construct Validity with Cognitive Psychology Principles 
    Embretson, Susan E.; Gorin, Joanna (Georgia Institute of TechnologyWiley-Blackwell, 2001)
    Cognitive psychology principles have been heralded as possibly central to construct validity. In this paper, testing practices are examined in three stages: (a) the past, in which the traditional testing research paradigm ...
  • Problem Restructuring Processes for Ill-Structured Verbal Analogies 
    Barnes, G. Michael; Embretson, Susan E. (Georgia Institute of TechnologyPsychonomic Society, Inc., 1981)
    The processes involved in analogy solving have been an important investigative area in cognitive psychology. Although problem restructuring has been a central construct in problem solving theory, no restructuring processes ...
  • The Second Century of Ability Testing: Some Predictions and Speculations 
    Embretson, Susan E. (Georgia Institute of TechnologyWiley-Blackwell, 2003)
    Dazzling changes in many areas, such as technology and communications, marked the 20th century—the first century of ability testing. Predictions about the second century of testing seem difficult in such a context. Yet, ...

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