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On the scoring problem in the Perception of affective content test

Emotional intelligence (EI) is defined as the ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion in the self and others (Mayer and Salovey, 1997). A major issue for ability-based measures EI is the &laquo ; ; problem of the correct answer&raquo ; ; . Emotion-based systems have no absolute algorithm to determine the correct answer. There are three possible sources in searching for correct answers: experts (in the field of EI - expert scoring), a group of participants (consensus scoring), and the creator of the items (target scoring). Ability-based EI tests are most commonly scored by consensus. Five different scoring methods have been used for both scoring criteria (expert and consensus): (1) proportion, (2) mode, (3) lenient mode, (4) distance, and (5) adjusted distance. Final scores in Test of accuracy in perception of affective content (TOESS ; Takšić, Arar & Molander, 2004) were calculated according to all five methods for deriving possible correct answer, and according to experts, consensus and target criteria. Twelve different &laquo ; ; correct answers&raquo ; ; were compared with each other. Results have showed as follows: (a) only distance as a scoring method has appropriate reliabilities in both expert and consensus scoring, (b) higher correlations are found among different methods of scoring according to expert criteria, and (c) target criteria are found to have higher correlations with expert than with consensus criteria. As conclusion it could be claimed that when Likert scales are used to determine correct answers in EI ability measure, experts criteria and distance as a scoring method are found to be the most reliable and valid method.

expert scoring; consensus scoring; target scoring; Perception of affective content test

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