Barchard

Faculty

Kimberly A. Barchard, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Program:

Experimental

Website:

http://www.unlv.edu/faculty/barchard/

Email:

kim.barchard@unlv.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-0758

Accepting Graduate Students 2008-2009: YES

Research Interests

Kim Barchard is interested in psychometrics and test development. She collaborates with faculty and students in three areas. First, she develops and evaluates tests and scoring procedures for Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions in oneself and others. Second, Dr. Barchard's interests extend more broadly to the development and evaluation of tests in any psychological content area, including for example manipulation skill, motivation, and cognitive styles leading to depression. She is open to collaborative test development projects in any area of psychology. Finally, Dr. Barchard develops and evaluates statistics that assess test quality (typically described as reliability and validity). Her work has focused on inferential procedures for coefficient alpha, which is one measure of internal consistency reliability, but she is open to collaborative projects related to validity statistics as well.

Dr. Barchard teaches statistics and test development at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her 2001 Ph.D. in psychometrics from the University of British Columbia covered both test development and the use of statistics in psychology.

Selected Publications

Barchard, K. A. & Christensen, M. M. (2007). The dimensionality and higher-order factor structure of self-reported emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 971-985.

Barchard, K. A. & Russell, J. A. (2006). Bias in consensus scoring, with examples from ability emotional intelligence tests. Psicothema (special issue devoted to Emotional Intelligence), 18, 49-54.

Barchard, K. A. & Hakstian, A. R. (2004). The nature and measurement of emotional intelligence abilities: Basic dimensions and their relationships with other cognitive-ability and personality variables. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 64, 437-462.

Barchard, K. A. & Russell, J. A. (2004). Psychometric issues in the measurement of emotional intelligence. In G. Geher (Ed.), Measuring Emotional Intelligence: Common Ground and Controversy, pp. 51-70. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Barchard, K. A. (2003). Does emotional intelligence assist in the prediction of academic success? Educational and Psychological Measurement, 63, 840-858.

Ruiz‑Belda, M., Fernández‑Dols, J., Carrera, P., & Barchard, K. A. (2003). Spontaneous facial expressions of happy bowlers and soccer fans. Cognition & Emotion, 17, 315-326.

Barchard, K. A. & Hakstian, A. R. (1997). The effects of sampling model on inference with coefficient alpha. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 57, 893-905.