The International Cognitive Ability Resource

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Philipp Doebler
• Subject Area: Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 243090733

The International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR), a public-domain and open-source tool, is to provide a large and dynamic bank of cognitive ability measures for use in a wide variety of applications. By encouraging the use, revision, and ongoing development of these measures among qualified research groups around the world, the ICAR will further understanding about the holistic structure of cognitive abilities as well as the nature of associations between cognitive ability constructs and other variables. ICAR will build heavily on automatic item generation techniques which yield items with predictable psychometric qualities. The item generators developed for the ICAR will be distributed as functions in psychometrically-informed, easily-implemented, open-source software. In addition, suitable statistical methodology will be developed and sub-projects will use ICAR items to explore specific research questions. The impact of this international collaboration will be the creation of a platform for more standardized assessment and more rapid scientific progress among the disciplines and research groups around the world which use cognitive ability measures to diagnose impairments, evaluate the correlates of various abilities, and predict important life outcomes.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: United Kingdom, USA
• Participating Persons: Professor William Revelle, Ph.D.; Professor John Rust, Ph.D.