International Cognitive Ability Resource

The International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR), is a public-domain and opensource tool, is assessment tool which aims to provide a large and dynamic bank of cognitive ability measures for use in a wide variety of applications. By encouraging encourage the use, revision, and ongoing development broader assessment 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 in social sciences research. The collaborators working on automatic item generation techniques which yield items with predictable psychometric qualities. The item generators developed for this project believe that the ICAR will be distributed as functions in psychometrically-informed, easily implemented, open-source software. In addition, suitable statistical methodology will be developed and subprojects will use ICAR items best way to explore specific research questions. The impact of achieve this international collaboration will be the creation of a platform aim is by making it easier for more standardized assessment and more rapid scientific progress among the disciplines and research groups around the world which use cognitive ability measures scientists to diagnose impairments, evaluate the correlates of various abilities, employ flexible and predict important life outcomes. unrestricted measures which have been well-validated against one another.

*About us* *We hope this site will further this aim by:*
Core teams:
* Prof. William Revelle and David Condon from Northwestern University, United States distributing the resources which are currently available (the existing "item types")
* Dr. Philipp Döbler, Prof. Heinz Holling and Ehsan Masoudi from University of Münster, Germany providing psychometric information about these resources
* Prof. John Rust, Dr. Michal Kosinski, Dr. David Stillwell, Luning Sun encouraging researchers to develop and Fiona Chan from University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
International collaborators:
* Dr. Fang Luo and Prof. Hongyun Liu from Beijing Normal University, China
* Dr. Haniza Yon from MIMOS National R&D Centre in ICT, Malaysia
* Dr. Yoram Bachrach, Dr. Pushmeet Kohli and Dr. Thore Graepel from Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
* Dr. Ricardo Primi from University of São Francisco, Brazil
* Dr. Han Stochl from University of York, United Kingdom
* Dr. Andrew Bateman from the Oliver Zangwill Centre contribute item types for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, United Kingdom
* and more use (and validation) by others

*ICAR Item Types*
At the moment, there are five four item types included among the ICAR set:
[[Three-Dimensional Rotation]]
[[Letter and Number Series]]
[[Matrix Reasoning]]
[[Verbal Reasoning]]
Figural analogies
A range of item types are currently under development, including but not limited to:
Object recognition
Facial identity recognition
Facial expression recognition
Corpor-based questions

*Testing Platform*
[[Concerto]] is an open-source online testing platform developed by the Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge. The platform is based on the R statistical language, allowing that allows users to create various online assessments, ranging from simple surveys to complex IRT-based adaptive tests. Composed of open-source components (HTML, SQL, tests, and R) is used in the system is regularly updated and improved by its community of users. ICAR project. For more information about concerto please visit http://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/newconcerto.

*[[Collaborations]]*