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5th psychometric symposium in honour of Professor Alija Kulenović

It is a great honor to announce the fifth international symposium dedicated to the memory of Professor Alija Kulenović. Organizing the symposium served as still another opportunity to remind ourselves to the work and authority of this vigorous teacher, creative scientist and outstandingly generous personality. Six years ago, an international symposium entitled Contemporary Issues in Psychometrics and organized in the honour of him, was included in the program of 17th Ramiro and Zoran Bujas’ Days. The next three events brought into play with the same incentive were the 15th Psychology Days in Zadar held in 2006, and 18th and 19th Ramiro and Zoran Bujas’ Days held in Zagreb in the years of 2007 and 2009. The program of the present psychometric event covers diverse conceptual and methodological issues treated within the framework of classical and/or modern formulations of psychometric theory, or with reference to substantive phenomena, related operationalizations, and implemented validation procedures. Albeit the symposium is not devoted to a particular thematic area, I am pleased to note that the studies to be presented deal with theoretically and practically important questions related to the measurement of psychological attributes and possible methodological solutions. Typical construct validation problems are described in several studies using different analytic procedures, such as latent class analysis (S. Prot et al.), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (G. Milas et al., and A. Babić), or multigroup CFA (V. Takšić et al.). Two presentations include applications of classical test theory models and its generalizations in resolving particular estimation problems (B. Rebernjak and D. Urch), or in testing substantive hypotheses from specific applied areas (A. Mujagić). Also, demonstrations of use of new analytical solutions like local structural equation models (Hildebrandt et al.), and pairwise comparison method in the measurement of latent variables (A. Thomas et al.) are offered and exemplified with real and simulated data. Finally, the issues of metric quality of item and/or composite test scores as a function of a mode of administration of instruments (L. Komidar and G. Sočan), item format (D. Ljubotina), or scoring method used (V. Buško) will also be presented. We hope that the contributions will serve to rouse interesting psychometric discussions in the audience and turn the symposium into an inspiring scientific enterprise.

invited international symposium; psychometrics

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