ttpphd, 2 months ago

An easy way to improve scoring of memory span tasks: The edit distance, beyond "correct recall in the correct serial position"
Gonthier in Behav. Res. Methods 2023

"in addition to being more logically consistent, edit-distance scoring demonstrates similar or better psychometric properties than partial-credit, with comparable validity, a small increase in reliability, and a substantial increase of test information"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35794418/

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