Essentials of Psychological Testing
5th Edition
Published on 31. December 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
726 pages
978-0-06-041418-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text instructs students how to evaluate tests and testing practices and encourages them to try to develop new and better testing instruments and to predict the controversies of the future.
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Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Width: 243 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1052 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-041418-4 (9780060414184)
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Cronbach/ka
Essentials Psych Testng 4e
Book
01/1984
4th Edition
Longman Higher Education
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Content
I.BASIC CONCEPTS.
1.Who Uses Tests? And for What Purposes?
2.Varieties of Tests and Test Interpretations.
3.Administering Tests.
4.Scores and Score Conversions.
5.How to Judge Tests: Validation.
6.How to Judge Tests: Reliability and other Qualities.
II.TESTS OF ABILITY.
7.General Ability: Appraisal Methods.
8.The Meanings of General Ability.
9.Influences on Intellectual Development.
10.Multiple Abilities and Their Role in Counseling.
11.Personnel Selection.
III.MEASURES OF TYPICAL RESPONSE.
12.Interest Inventories.
13.General Problems in Studying Personality.
14.Personality Measurement through Self-Report.
15.Judgments and Systematic Observations.
16.Inferences from Performance.
1.Who Uses Tests? And for What Purposes?
2.Varieties of Tests and Test Interpretations.
3.Administering Tests.
4.Scores and Score Conversions.
5.How to Judge Tests: Validation.
6.How to Judge Tests: Reliability and other Qualities.
II.TESTS OF ABILITY.
7.General Ability: Appraisal Methods.
8.The Meanings of General Ability.
9.Influences on Intellectual Development.
10.Multiple Abilities and Their Role in Counseling.
11.Personnel Selection.
III.MEASURES OF TYPICAL RESPONSE.
12.Interest Inventories.
13.General Problems in Studying Personality.
14.Personality Measurement through Self-Report.
15.Judgments and Systematic Observations.
16.Inferences from Performance.