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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2024

Identifying quality responses using an analysis of response times: the RTcutoff function in R.

Georgios Sideridis, Mohammed Alghamdi

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Georgios SideridisBoston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Mohammed AlghamdiDepartment of Self-Development Skills, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Introduction: The present study aims to develop an R function to develop and visualize thresholds that describe the response time of individuals concerning their sample. The function utilizes the cumulative proportion correct (CUMP) approach, to estimate item-specific time threshold, which originated in the work of Guo and his colleagues. Besides the CUMP approach, the present function presents response time profiles on a measure using the mean of the sample and + 1SD times so that it can discern between thoughtful engagement and processing with an item (termed problem-solving behavior) and rapid responding, guessing, and disengagement with the test. The advantage of the CUMP model utilized here is that it simultaneously engages both response time and response correctness to establish thresholds that differentiate engaged from disengaged participants. Methods: Given data on a measure of reading comprehension for students in Saudi Arabia ( Results and conclusion: Results pointed to the importance and necessity of the RTcutoff function to identify variable forms of engagement that have implications for person-score validity but also have implications for test validity and the need to increase measurement precisio.

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CUMP methodpsychometricsrapid guessingresponse accuracyresponse timeR functionRTcutoff functiontest validity

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