Still Comparing Apples With Oranges?: Some Thoughts on the Principles and Practices of Measurement Invariance Testing

This editorial seeks to encourage European Journal of Psychological Assessment authors to take a critical approach to the use of multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for invariance testing. The authors highlight three aspects surrounding the principles and practices of invariance testing v...

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Published in:European journal of psychological assessment : official organ of the European Association of Psychological Assessment 2018, Vol.34 (3), p.141-144
Main Authors: Greiff, Samuel, Scherer, Ronny
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