{"pk":28418,"title":"Measuring Spatial Perspective Taking:\nAnalysis of Four Measures using Item Response Theory","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Research on spatial thinking needs reliable and valid measures of individual differences in skills.\nVisuospatial Perspective Taking (PT)—the ability to mentally maintain and transform spatial\nrelationships between objects within an environment—is one kind of spatial skill that is\nespecially relevant to navigation and building cognitive maps. However, the psychometric\nproperties of various PT tasks have yet to be examined. The present study examines three main\npsychometric properties of PT tasks: 1) the reliability of two tasks developed for children but\nadapted in difficulty level for use in adult populations, 2) item difficulty and discriminability\nwithin and between four tasks using item response theory, and 3) relation of scores with general\nintelligence, working memory, and mental rotation. Results showed that two of the four PT tasks\nhave promising psychometric properties for measuring a wide range of PT ability based on item\ndifficulty, discriminability, and efficiency of a test information function.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Symposia","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9br3b8cq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brucato","name_suffix":"","institution":"Temple University","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Frick","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Fribourg","department":""},{"first_name":"Alina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nazareth","name_suffix":"","institution":"Temple University","department":""},{"first_name":"Nora","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Newcombe","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Fribourg","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28418/galley/18289/download/"}]}