Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives on Test Interpretation

by Lichtenberg, James W.; Goodyear, Rodney K.

• ISBN13: 9780205174812
• ISBN10: 0205174817
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

This book provides information on the broader context within which test interpretations are rendered. Each chapter is grounded in theory and research. It offers critical and scientific appraisals of methodological, contextual, and procedural issues for counselors to consider whenever they interpret test data to clients.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
About the Editors	xi
About the Contributors	xiii
A Scientist-Practitioner Perspective on Test Interpretation	1	(14)
Rodney K. Goodyear
James W. Lichtenberg
Test Psychometrics	15	(16)
Jo-Ida C. Hansen
Gender and Ethnicity: Influence on Test Interpretation and Reception	31	(28)
Nadya A. Fouad
Pat Meyer Chan
The Usefulness of Tests in Clinical Decisions	59	(54)
Thomas J. Hummel
Inference and Attribution Errors in Test Interpretation	113	(19)
Terence J. Tracey
James Rounds
Test Interpretation as the Social-Cognitive Construction of Therapeutic Change	132	(19)
Jack Martin
Lorne Prupas
Jeff Sugarman
Test Interpretation: A Social Influence Perspective	151	(16)
Charles D. Claiborn
William E. Hanson
Science and the Practice of Test Interpretation	167	(16)
Russell D. Allison
James W. Lichtenberg
Rodney K. Goodyear
Name Index	183	(6)
Subject Index	189