Author(s)

Georgia Papantoniou¹, Despina Moraitou², Dimitra Filippidou², Effie Katsadima¹, Magda Dinou¹

¹Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
²School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

The aim of this paper was to test for measurement bias, due to cognitive interference on cognitive ability tests, using a structural equation modeling technique. The sample consisted of 231 undergraduate students who were examined with three tests addressed to numerical ability, space visualization and inductive ability, respectively. They were also asked to respond to the Cognitive Interference Questionnaire tapping task-oriented worries while working on the aforementioned tests. In comparing two nested models, one hypothesizing measurement bias due to cognitive interference and one not, results show that the test tapping inductive ability displays measurement bias due to cognitive interference.

Cognitive Ability Tests, Cognitive Interference, Measurement Bias

Papantoniou, G. , Moraitou, D. , Filippidou, D. , Katsadima, E. and Dinou, M. (2017) Does Cognitive Interference Induce Measurement Bias in Cognitive Ability Tests?. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 7, 21-29. doi: 10.4236/jbbs.2017.71003.