TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive Ability in Everyday Life
T2 - The Utility of Open-Source Measures
AU - Revelle, William
AU - Dworak, Elizabeth M.
AU - Condon, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - The measurement of individual differences in cognitive ability has a long and important history in psychology, but it has been impeded by the proprietary nature of most assessment measures. With the development of validated open-source measures of ability (collected in the International Cognitive Ability Resource, or ICAR, available at ICAR-project.com), it is now possible for many researchers to assess ability in large surveys or small, lab-based studies without the expenses associated with proprietary measures. We review the history of ability measurement and discuss how the growing set of items included in ICAR allows ability assessments to be more generally available to all researchers.
AB - The measurement of individual differences in cognitive ability has a long and important history in psychology, but it has been impeded by the proprietary nature of most assessment measures. With the development of validated open-source measures of ability (collected in the International Cognitive Ability Resource, or ICAR, available at ICAR-project.com), it is now possible for many researchers to assess ability in large surveys or small, lab-based studies without the expenses associated with proprietary measures. We review the history of ability measurement and discuss how the growing set of items included in ICAR allows ability assessments to be more generally available to all researchers.
KW - cognitive ability
KW - intelligence
KW - open-source measurement
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U2 - 10.1177/0963721420922178
DO - 10.1177/0963721420922178
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087566477
SN - 0963-7214
VL - 29
SP - 358
EP - 363
JO - Current Directions in Psychological Science
JF - Current Directions in Psychological Science
IS - 4
ER -