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PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENT
Based on: 2012 Edition book of
Kaplan and Saccuzzo
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Principles
- Introduction
- Norms and Basic Statistics for Testing
- Correlation and Regression
- Reliability
- Validity
- Writing and Evaluating Test Items
- Test Administration
Types of Tests
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Individual tests can be given to only one person at a time
2.
Group tests more than one person at a time by a single
examiner
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Ability Tests measure skills in terms of speed, accuracy, or
both
a.
Achievement Test - previous learning
b.
Aptitude potential for learning or acquiring
specific skill
c.
Intelligence persons general potential to solve
problems, adapt to changing circumstances, think
abstractly, and profit from experience.
Applications
- Interviewing Techniques
- Theories of Intelligence and Binet Scales
- The Wechsler Intelligence Scales: WAIS-IV, WISC-IV,
and WPPSI-III
- Other individual Tests of Ability in Education and
Special Education
- Standardized Tests in Education, Civil Service, and
the Military
- Applications in Clinical and Counseling Settings
- Projective Personality Tests
- Computers and Basic Psychological Science and
Testing
- Testing in Counseling Psychology
- Testing in Health Psychology and Health Care
- Testing in Industrial and Business Settings
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Issues
-Test Bias
-Testing and the Law
- Ethics and Future of Psychological Testing
PRINCIPLES
Who are
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20th Century
Settings
1. Educational Settings
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SCALES OF MEASUREMENT
Properties
1.
Magnitude property of moreness. A scale has the
property of magnitude if we can say that a particular
instance of the attribute represents more, less, or equal
amounts of the given quantity than does another instance.
2.
Equal Intervals if the difference between two points at
any place o the scale has the same meaning as the
difference between two other points that differ by the
same number of scale units.
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Absolute Zero- when nothing of the property being
measured exists.
Type of Scale
Magnitude
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
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Equal
Intervals
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No
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Yes
Absolute 0
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Measurement of Personality
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Traits
relatively
enduring
dispositions
(tendencies to act, think, or feel in a certain
manner in any given circumstance) that
distinguish one individual from another.
Robert S Woodworth measure of adjustment
and emotional stability that could be administered
quickly and efficiently to group of recruits
(Personal Data Sheet)
Woodworth Personal Data Sheet an early
structured personality test that assumed that a
test response can be taken at face value
Projective Tests an individual is assumed to
project onto some ambiguous stimulus his or her
own unique needs, fears, hopes, and motivation.
Rorschach Inkblot test: highly controversial
projective test that provided an ambiguous
stimulus and asked the subject what it might be
Thematic Apperception test: projective test
that provided ambiguous pictures and asked
subjects to make up a story
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
(MMPI): structured personality test that made no
assumptions about the meaning of a test
response. Such meaning was to be determined by
empirical research
16PF: A structured personality test based on the
statistical procedure of factor analysis
Ordinal: IQ Tests
Interval: Temperature on C and F
Ratio: Kelvin Scale; Yards, Speed
DESCRIBING DISTRIBUTIONS
1.
Mean arithmetic average score in a distribution
2.
Standard Deviation approximation of the average deviation
around the mean; square root of variance
3.
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Reliability
Validity
Writing and Evaluating Test Items
Test Administration
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