Comprehending Test Manuals (eBook)

A Guide and Workbook

Ann Silverlake (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2016
122 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-351-97087-7 (ISBN)

Infos

* 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!

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• ISBN-10: 1-351-97087-9 / 1351970879
• ISBN-13: 978-1-351-97087-7 / 9781351970877