Bulut Okan, Cormier Damien C, Aquilina Alexandra M, Bulut Hatice C
Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5, Canada.
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5, Canada.
J Intell. 2021 Jul 7;9(3):35. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence9030035.
The Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV COG) is a comprehensive assessment battery designed to assess broad and narrow cognitive abilities, as defined by the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of intelligence. Previous studies examined the invariance of the WJ assessments across sex and age groups using factor analytic methods. Psychometric network modeling is an alternative methodology that can address both direct and indirect relationships among the observed variables. In this study, we employed psychometric network modeling to examine the invariance of the WJ IV COG across sex and age groups. Using a normative sample ( = 4212 participants) representative of the United States population, we tested the extent to which the factorial structure of the WJ IV COG aligned with CHC theory for the school-aged sample. Next, we used psychometric network modeling as a data-driven method to investigate whether the network structure of the WJ IV COG remains similar across different sex and age (age 6 to 19, inclusively) groups. Our results showed that the WJ IV COG maintained the same network structure across all age and sex groups, although the network structure at younger ages indicated weaker relationships among some subtests. Overall, the results provide construct validity evidence for the WJ IV COG, based on both theoretical and data-driven methods.
《伍德科克-约翰逊第四版认知能力测验》（WJ IV COG）是一套综合评估工具，旨在评估由卡特尔-霍恩-卡罗尔（CHC）智力理论所定义的广泛和狭义的认知能力。以往的研究使用因素分析方法检验了WJ评估在性别和年龄组间的不变性。心理测量网络建模是一种可以处理观测变量之间直接和间接关系的替代方法。在本研究中，我们采用心理测量网络建模来检验WJ IV COG在性别和年龄组间的不变性。使用一个代表美国人口的常模样本（n = 4212名参与者），我们测试了WJ IV COG的因素结构与学龄样本的CHC理论相符的程度。接下来，我们使用心理测量网络建模作为一种数据驱动的方法，来研究WJ IV COG的网络结构在不同性别和年龄（6至19岁，含）组间是否保持相似。我们的结果表明，WJ IV COG在所有年龄和性别组中保持相同的网络结构，尽管较年轻年龄段的网络结构显示一些子测验之间的关系较弱。总体而言，这些结果基于理论和数据驱动方法为WJ IV COG提供了结构效度证据。
