Emily Blackshaw has added an update
Sep 17,2018
Psychometric data analysis skill development
Now that I am entering the final wave of data collection, I have turned my attention back to data analysis methods. I was a bit disappointed to find that a lot of the knowledge I had gleaned from reading I had done on psychometrics, classical test theory and item response models at the outset of my PhD was not lying dormant, awaiting a gentle shake back into usefulness, but had seemed to have disappeared. For this reason, I wanted to outline a couple of resources that I have found particularly useful when trying to get to grips with some of these types of data analysis. Firstly an article: Multilevel modeling of longitudinal data for psychotherapy r... This paper takes you from pre-post ANOVA/ANCOVA analyses to multi-level longitudinal modelling, explaining the benefits and difficulties and carefully explaining the model building and equation formation in a way that was detailed yet clear. On multi-level modelling, this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiC71FRItFM by Nick Shyrane takes you through a thorough explanation of the key concepts involved. The University of Manchester has an incredibly helpful youtube page methodsMcr for all of their humanities research methods related videos. I also found Nick's item response theory video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIKJlcniHA very informative. I will update this post as I come across particularly useful psychometric learning resources. If you have any favourites in the areas of IRT and longitudinal data analysis, please comment below.