Publications

Journal Articles #

Alfers, T., Gittler, G., Ulitzsch, E., & Pohl, S. (in press). Assessing the Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff in Psychological Testing using Experimental Manipulations. Educational and Psychological Measurement.
Pelikan, J.M., Link, T., Straßmayr, C., Waldherr, K., Alfers, T., Bøggild, H., Griebler, R., Lopatina, M., Mikšová, D., Nielsen, M.G., Peer, S., Vrdelja, M., on behalf of the HLS19 Consortium of the WHO Action Network M-POHL. (2022). Measuring comprehensive, general health literacy in the general adult population: The development and validation of the HLS19-Q12 instrument in seventeen countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114129

Book Chapters #

Link, T., Pelikan, J., Miksová, D., Strassmayr, C., Alfers, T., Berens, E-M., Berzelak, N., Bøggild, H., Drapkina, O., Finbråten, H. S., Griebler, R., Guttersrud, Ø., Le, C., Lopatina, M., Nielsen, M. G., Nogueira, P. J., Oliveira, J., Peer, S., Pettersen, K. S., … ; the HLS19 consortium of the WHO action network M-POHL. (2021). The HLS19-Q12 measure. In International report on the methodology, results, and recommendations of the european health literacy population survey 2019-2021 (HLS19) of M-POHL (pp. 88-110), Austrian National Public Health Institute. https://m-pohl.net/sites/m-pohl.net/files/inline-files/HLS19%20International%20Report.pdf
Ulitzsch, E., Alfers, T., & Pohl, S. (2020, forthcoming). Using response times for improving the understanding and handling of missing responses. In L. Khorramdel, M. von Davier, & K. Yamamoto (Eds.), Innovative computer-based international large-scale assessments – foundations, methodologies and quality assurance procedures. Springer.

Unpublished Master Thesis #

Alfers, T. (2018). Item construction and evaluation using Rasch models – a bayesian approach. Unpublished Master Thesis, (Advisor: ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mag. Georg Gittler), University of Vienna.

Conference Contributions #

Alfers, T., Gittler, G., Ulitzsch, E., & Pohl, S. (2022, September). Introducing time pressure to examine the Speed-Ability Tradeoff: A Diffusion Item Response Theory modeling approach. In T. Alfers, & S. Pohl (Chairs), Advances in psychometric modeling: What we can learn about examinees by consulting their response times. [Symposium]. Talk given at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Hildesheim, Germany.
Krause, R. W., Mutak, A., Much, S., Alfers, T., Ulitzsch, E., Ranger, J., & Pohl, S. (2022, September). Investigating the Speed-Ability Tradeoff in psychological tests using the Diffusion Item Response Theory model with Random Variability. In T. Alfers, & S. Pohl (Chairs), Advances in psychometric modeling: What we can learn about examinees by consulting their response times. [Symposium]. Talk given by Steffi Pohl at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Hildesheim, Germany.
Alfers, T., Gittler, G., Ulitzsch, E., & Pohl, S. (2022, July). What changes in Diffusion IRT model parameters can tell us about the Speed-Ability Tradeoff. In E. Ulitzsch (Chair), Advances in using response times for understanding between-person differences and within-person changes in test-takers’ behavior. [Symposium]. Talk given at the 87th Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Bologna, Italy.
Alfers, T., Gittler, G., Ulitzsch, E., & Pohl, S. (2021, June). Under pressure: Measuring cognitive abilities under instruction-induced time pressure. Talk given at the 6th International NEPS Conference, Virtual Meeting.
Alfers, T., & Gittler, G. (2018, July). Towards the importance of rule-based item construction using LLTM-R. Poster presented at the 83rd Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, New York, NY.
Alfers, T., Gittler, G., Siegel, M., & Pietschnig, J. (2018, April). Evidenzbasierte Studienberatung: eine Alternative zu reduktionistischen Ansätzen in RIASEC-basierten Beratungsinstrumenten [Evidence-based study counseling: An alternative to reductionistic approaches in RIASEC-based counseling tools]. Talk given at the 13th Conference of the Austrian Society for Psychology, Linz, Austria.
Siegel, M., Alfers, T., Pietschnig, J., & Gittler, G. (2018, April). Zur faktoriellen Ausdifferenzierung der RIASEC-Binnenstruktur bei Jugendlichen im Studienberatungsinstrument Studien-Navi [Towards the factorial differentiation of RIASEC in the case of adolescents by using the study counseling test Studien-Navi]. Talk given at the 13th Conference of the Austrian Society for Psychology, Linz, Austria.