Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement

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Mayfield Pub., 1999 - Psychology - 744 pages
New edition of a psychological assessment textbook. Covers the statistical basis for measurement, correlation and inference, validity, tests of intelligence, personality assessment, counseling assessment, neurophysiological assessment, the assessment of people with disabilities, and computer-assiste

Contents

AN OVERVIEW
1
The Tools of Psychological Assessment
7
Assumptions in Psychological Testing and Assessment
14
WHO WHAT AND WHY?
25
EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF TESTS
34
Reliability
35
Historical Cultural and LegalEthical Considerations
44
Some Issues Regarding Culture and Assessment
54
Measures of Specific Intellectual Abilities
324
Preschool and Educational Assessment
329
Preschool Tests
332
APTITUDE TESTS
344
The College Level and Beyond
350
PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL TEST BATTERIES
357
WoodcockJohnson PsychoEducational BatteryRevised WJR
363
OTHER TOOLS OF ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
374

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PART 2 THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
85
Frequency Distributions
92
Measures of Variability
100
Kurtosis
106
Other Standard Scores
112
Standardization and Norming
118
Fixed Reference Group Scoring Systems
125
The Concept of Correlation
131
Regression
139
THE CONCEPT OF RELIABILITY
146
ParallelForms and AlternateForms Reliability Estimates
152
Measures of InterScorer Reliability
158
TEST DEVELOPER SNAPSHOT Glen Roberts Ph D 120
166
The Standard Error of the Difference Between Two Scores
172
The Quantification of Content Validity
178
CRITERIONRELATED VALIDITY
182
CLOSEUP Pearson Galton Correlation and Regression 133
194
CONSTRUCT VALIDITY
197
VALIDITY AND TEST BIAS
204
TEST DEVELOPER SNAPSHOT Aaron T Beck M D 185
212
Pilot Work
219
Writing Items
225
THE ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
254
MEASURING INTELLIGENCE
256
Measuring the Intelligence of Adults
268
Nature Versus Nurture
274
Other Issues
280
TEST DEVELOPER SNAPSHOT Alfred Binet 258
286
A PERSPECTIVE 563
289
Tests of Intelligence
292
Scoring and Interpretation
298
The Wechsler Tests in Perspective
317
OTHER MEASURES OF INTELLIGENCE
318
PART 4 THE ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY
380
Where?
390
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT AND CULTURE
398
TOOLS OF TEST DEVELOPMENT
404
ISSUES AND TRENDS IN PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
428
Personality Assessment Methods
434
Pictures as Projective Stimuli
442
Words as Projective Stimuli
454
Projective Methods in Perspective
461
A PERSPECTIVE
479
PART 5 TESTING AND ASSESSMENT IN ACTION
481
SPECIAL APPLICATIONS OF CLINICAL MEASURES
500
Custody Evaluations
509
Assessment in Health Psychology
515
Neuropsychological Assessment
524
The History
532
TEST DEVELOPER SNAPSHOT Lauretta Bender M D
550
Other Tools of Neuropsychological Assessment
552
The Prepackaged Battery
558
The Assessment of People with Disabilities
564
Hearing Disabilities
579
Assessment Careers and Business
592
Measures of Personality
605
Portfolio Assessment
611
ASSESSMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY MOTIVATION AND ATTITUDE
617
Attitude
623
Motivation Research Methods
636
ComputerAssisted Psychological Assessment
642
The Disadvantages
651
Validity
665
References
671
Credits
743
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