These research articles from the 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) cover
timely quantitative psychology topics including new methods in item response theory
computerized adaptive testing cognitive diagnostic modeling and psychological scaling. Topics
within general quantitative methodology include structural equation modeling factor analysis
causal modeling mediation missing data methods and longitudinal data analysis. These methods
will appeal in particular to researchers in the social sciences. The 79th annual meeting took
place in Madison WI between July 21nd and 25th 2014. Previous volumes to showcase work from
the Psychometric Society¿s Meeting are New Developments in Quantitative Psychology:
Presentations from the 77th Annual Psychometric Society Meeting (Springer 2013) and
Quantitative Psychology Research: The 78th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (Springer
2015).¿
