Insufficient Effort Responding: Pest or Plague When Assessing Self-Regulated Learning With Self-Report Surveys

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify instances of insufficient effort responding (IER) in a data set comprised of self-reported scores on various constructs related to self-regulated learning (SRL). To identify IER, we used four indices: total survey response time, individual response variability (IRV), psychometric synonyms, and odd-even consistency. We computed each of these indices for each participant across three surveys, administered over the course of an academic semester. We found that between 10% - 13% of respondents in our surveys could be identified by at least one IER index, which falls in line with previous IER research (Meade & Craig, 2012; Maniaci & Rogge, 2014). We further examined the relationship between IER indices and various SRL constructs.

Authors

• Ryan Iaconelli, The Ohio State University

• Christopher A. Wolters, The Ohio State University