Pepper, D;
Hodgen, J;
Lamesoo, K;
Kõiv, P;
Tolboom, J;
(2018)
Think aloud: using cognitive interviewing to validate the PISA assessment of student self-efficacy in mathematics.
International Journal of Research and Method in Education
, 41
(1)
pp. 3-16.
10.1080/1743727X.2016.1238891.
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Abstract
Cognitive interviewing (CI) provides a method of systematically collecting validity evidence of response processes for questionnaire items. CI involves a range of techniques for prompting individuals to verbalise their responses to items. One such technique is concurrent verbalisation, as developed in Think Aloud Protocol (TAP). This article investigates the value of the technique for validating questionnaire items administered to young people in international surveys. To date, the literature on TAP has focused on allaying concerns about reactivity – whether response processes are affected by thinking aloud. This article investigates another concern, namely the completeness of concurrent verbalisations – the extent to which respondents verbalise their response processes. An independent, exploratory validation of the PISA assessment of student self-efficacy in mathematics by a small international team of researchers using CI with concurrent verbalisation in four education systems (England, Estonia, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands) provided the basis for this investigation. The researchers found that students generally thought aloud in response to each of the items, thereby providing validity evidence of responses processes varying within and between the education systems, but that practical steps could be taken to increase the completeness of concurrent verbalisations in future validations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Think aloud: using cognitive interviewing to validate the PISA assessment of student self-efficacy in mathematics |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1743727X.2016.1238891 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2016.1238891 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Cognitive interviewing, think aloud, validation, assessment, PISA, international, self-efficacy, mathematics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10025529 |
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