Online assessment: Desirable or dangerous?

By Tom Buchanan. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Are Internet and Paper-and-Pencil Personality Tests Truly Comparable? (2007, background): “Buchanan (2002) provides an analysis of some of the ethical considerations of these issues as may arise in the realm of practice, while several researchers in the I/O field have begun to focus on issues of measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) across test formats with respect to variables of int”
The Measurement Equivalence of Web-Based and Paper-and-Pencil Measures of Transformational Leadership (2006, background): “30 years (Buchanan, 2002; Evan & Miller, 1969; Gosling, Vazire, Srivastava, & John, 2004).”
The Use of the Internet in Psychological Research: Comparison of Online and Offline Questionnaires (2003, unknown): “As underlined by Buchanan, 8 “There are clearly also a number of practical issues that should be considered by anyone seeking to use online tests and important theoretical issues that need to be resolved.”
Standards for Internet-based experimenting. (2002, background): “Hence, differences found in comparisons between behaviors in computer-mediated situations and face-to-face situations (see, for example, Buchanan, 2002; Kiesler & Sproull, 1986; Postmes, Spears, Sakhel, & DeGroot, 2001) need to be taken into account when results from online research are interpreted.”
Testing for measurement equivalence of human values across online and paper-and-pencil surveys (2011, background): “Buchanan (2002) points out the important fact that the equivalence of PAP and online surveys using the same questionnaire cannot be presumed without first testing it.”
Implementing a five-factor personality inventory for use on the internet (2005, background): “For those who wish to perform assessments in the emergent context of behavioral telehealth services, internet-mediated assessment may become quite important (Barak & English, 2002; Buchanan, 2002).”