Measurement characteristics of the finding embedded figures test
Psychology in the SchoolsPublished 1 January 1989
Janet G. Melancon, Bruce Thompson
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Abstract
The study investigated the measurement characteristics of both forms of a multiple choice measure of field independence: the Finding Embedded Figures Test. Subjects (n = 302) completed both forms of the FEFT or one form of the FEFT and the Group Embedded Figures Test. Item performance was evaluated by computing classical item difficulty and item-by-total-score correlation coefficients; FEFT-by-GEFT concurrent validity correlation coefficients; and test-retest and alpha reliability coefficients. Results suggest that the FEFT forms provide reasonably reliable and valid data.
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