Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and MeasurementNew 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 |
Subject Index | |