The objective of this paper is to comment on the think-aloud methods presented in the three
papers included in this special issue. The commentary offered stems from the author's own …

The objective of the chapter is to highlight the potentially problematic effects that emotional
variables and, in particular, evaluative anxiety may have on response processing data …

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing indicate that multiple sources of
validity evidence should be used to support the interpretation of test scores. In the past …

This paper explores one of the claims reported in Gaskell et al.(1993), that respondents do
not attend to, or make use of, the intensifier very in survey questions. It argues that Think …

The'think aloud'method entails people verbalising their thoughts while they do tasks,
resulting in'verbal protocols'. The verbal protocols are analysed by researchers to identify …

There are no clear recommendations, best practices, or enough experience in validation
studies aimed at obtaining validity evidence using response processes. Cognitive …

Background: Validity evidence based on response processes was first introduced explicitly
as a source of validity evidence in the latest edition of Standards for Educational and …

The most tangible result of the dialogue between survey methods research and cognitive
psychology is the widespread use of think aloud methods for pre-testing questionnaires--so …

Response process validity evidence provides a window into a respondent's cognitive
processing. The purpose of this study is to describe a new data collection tool called a whole …

Think-aloud and thought-list techniques ask a subject to report all his or her thoughts while
doing some task. The goal is to “increase the temporal density of observations of [mental] …