Are you Swiping, or Just Marking? Exploring the Feasibility of Psychological Testing on Mobile Devices

ABSTRACT

N = 114 university students were tested with the AST, another test measuring sustained attention (FAIR-2), and a figural matrices test (DESIGMA) measuring participants' intelligence (IQ) to evaluate the psychometric properties and construct validity of the AST. Results indicated that the AST had a satisfying distribution of item difficulties (Миг = .58, SDræ = .36) and part-whole correlations (Mpwc = .55, SDpwc = .11), and an excellent reliability (rtt = .99). [...]test indices of the AST were highly correlated with the FAIR-2. [...]to existing tests of sustained attention the AST can be customized easily, is applicable for (self-administered) online studies, and its source code is released freely under the GNU GPLv3 license. [...]tests assessing sustained attention are frequently applied in a broad range of psychological and educational disciplines (Blotenberg & Schmidt-Atzert, 2019b;Moosbrugger & Goldhammer, 2006;Schmidt-Atzert et al., 2006).