Open AccessTHE DIMENSIONALITY OF RESPONSES TO SAT ANALOGY ITEMS
Author(s) -
Diones Ruth,
Bejar Isaac I.,
Chaffin Roger
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1996.tb01679.x
Subject(s) - analogy , taxonomy (biology) , psychology , curse of dimensionality , test (biology) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , mathematics education , artificial intelligence , epistemology , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , botany , biology
This study continued the research on analogy problem‐solving on psychometric tests pursued by Bejar, Chaffin and Embretson (1991). In specific, characteristics of a semantic taxonomy and a cognitively and empirically motivated intensional/pragmatic (I/P) dichotomy were explored. There were two research questions: (1) Could Bejar et al.'s results be replicated with SAT items? and (2) Would factor analyses support the bidimensional processing structure suggested by the I/P distinction? A specially constructed test of disclosed SAT analogies was administered to a group of 189 undergraduate students. Though factor analyses did not support the expected bidimensionality, a better understanding of both the semantic taxonomy and the I/P dichotomy was achieved. Suggestions for future work were given.