Psychological Testing Principles, Applications, and Issues (with InfoTrac)
- ISBN13:
9780534370961
- ISBN10:
0534370969
- Edition: 5th
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2000-08-07
- Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
Easy-to-read and accessible, this book effectively communicates the excitement and dynamics of the field of psychological testing. Robert Kaplan and Dennis Saccuzzo provide students with a current analysis of the most widely used psychological tests in schools, professional training programs, business, industry, the military, and clinical settings. As students read through the book, they get a clear picture of how psychological tests are constructed, how they are used, and how an understanding of them can make a difference in their careers and everyday lives.Students will get a very real sense of how psychological tests are constructed, how they are used, and how an understanding of them can make a difference in their careers and everyday lives. Comprehensive and accurate, yet interesting and personally relevant, this book gets and keeps students' attention through the use of informal discussions and real-life examples.
Table of Contents
| Part I: PRINCIPLES | |
| 1. Introduction | |
| 2. Norms and Basic Statistics for Testing | |
| 3. Correlation and Regression | |
| 4. Reliability | |
| 5. Validity | |
| 6. Writing and Evaluating Test Items | |
| 7. Selection and Decision Analysis | |
| 8. Test Administration | |
| Part II: APPLICATIONS | |
| 9. Interviewing Techniques | |
| 10. Theories of Intelligence and the Binet Scale | |
| 11. The Wechsler Intelligence Scales | |
| 12. Other Individual Tests of Ability | |
| 13. Group Ability Tests: Intelligence, Achievement, and Aptitude | |
| 14. Tests for Choosing Careers | |
| 15. Structured Personality Tests | |
| 16. Projective Personality Tests | |
| 17. Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment | |
| 18. Testing in Health Psychology and Health Care | |
| Part III: ISSUES | |
| 19. Test Bias | |
| 20. Testing and the Law | |
| 21. The Future of Psychological Testing | |
| Appendices | |
| 1. Areas of a Standard Normal Distribution | |
| 2. Publishers of Major Tests | |
| 3. Critical Values of r for Two-Tailed Test | |
| 4. Critical Values of t | |
| 5. Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education |
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