Description

– Your students will get valuable practice in interpreting actual excerpts from published test manuals.

– Each of the 39 exercises begins with a guideline that helps students review the measurement concepts they will need in order to complete the exercise.

– Background notes on each exercise describe the purpose of the test from which the excerpt was drawn.

– Students answer questions that require them to locate and interpret important points in the excerpt.

– The excerpts are largely unabridged so that students practice interpreting material as it is actually presented by test makers.

– The skills they learn with this book can be easily transferred to other test manuals they may be using in the future.

– Students have an ethical responsibility to be thoroughly familiar with the technical characteristics of the tests they will use. This book prepares them for this responsibility.

– All major topics are covered, including:

– validity

– reliability

– standard error of measurement

– norm group composition

– derived scores

– scales to detect faking

– item analysis

– cultural bias

– The excerpts are drawn from tests such as:

– Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

– Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

– 16PF

– Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale

– MMPI

– Beck Depression Inventory

– Stanford Achievement Test Series

– KeyMath

– and many others!

Author: Silverlake, Ann C

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1884585124
Language: English
Pages: 122