The Handbook of Psychological Testing provides a comprehensive and modern guide to all aspects of psychological testing. It covers psychometric theory and its application in the construction of tests, applied psychometrics in the vocational, educational, occupational and clinical fields, and an evaluative list of the best psychological tests. The theoretical section includes detailed accounts of classical test theory, including factor analysis and item characteristic curve theories. This description of the different types of test reveals their strengths and weaknesses for test users, and their applications in various practical fields of psychology are fully discussed. Finally there is a description and evaluation of the best tests so far produced. Appendices of formulae and definitions of technical terms are included to aid understanding of the text. Handling the sometimes complex mathematics with considerable clarity, The Handbook of Psychological Testing combines academic precision with practical and comprehensible application. The only clear, modern account of psychometrics to be found in one volume, it will be required reading for all psychologists and students of psychology who are concerned with testing in any form.
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Paul Kline is Emeritus Professor of Psychometrics at the University of Exeter, and has worked extensively as a consultant in test construction.
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An excellent introduction,
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As a lay person who has been subjected to personality tests in a child care court matter I was interested to find out how reliable these tests are. I found what I was looking for and realised that the psychologist carrying out these tests and making adverse comments on me was of the incompetent variety - as I thought at the time. Now I realise why from a more technical point of view. I am now looking for comments about interpretation of the specific tests - and a critique of those specific tests used on me and how these tests should be "qualified as to their limitations" in court reports by psychologistsTo what extent can these test results be extrapolated to predict reactions in typical stress situations?
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Reliability, as it is applied to tests, has two distinct meanings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crystallised ability, factored tests, normalised standard scores, factored variables, simple structure analyses, simple structure factor analysis, factor analytic tests, defence mechanism test, main personality factors, primary ability factors, fallible scores, tailored testing, basic reasoning ability, bloated specifics, personality test items, simple structure factors, ipsative scoring, clerical aptitude test, ipsative tests, ipsative scores, item characteristic curves, standard ability tests, normal ogive model, crystallised intelligence, item analytic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Britain, Direct Oblimin, Norms Norms, Personality Research Form, Dynamic Personality Inventory, Eight State Questionnaire, Reliability Internal, Alice Heim, Californian Psychological Inventory, Conclusions There, Validity There, Culture-Fair Test, General Aptitude Test Battery, Purdue Pegboard, Strong Vocational Interest Blank, Beck Depression Inventory, Comments There, Conclusions These, Government Printing Office, Norms There, Reliability Both, Strong Interest Blank, Vocational Interest Measure New!
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Reliability, as it is applied to tests, has two distinct meanings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crystallised ability, factored tests, normalised standard scores, factored variables, simple structure analyses, simple structure factor analysis, factor analytic tests, defence mechanism test, main personality factors, primary ability factors, fallible scores, tailored testing, basic reasoning ability, bloated specifics, personality test items, simple structure factors, ipsative scoring, clerical aptitude test, ipsative tests, ipsative scores, item characteristic curves, standard ability tests, normal ogive model, crystallised intelligence, item analytic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Britain, Direct Oblimin, Norms Norms, Personality Research Form, Dynamic Personality Inventory, Eight State Questionnaire, Reliability Internal, Alice Heim, Californian Psychological Inventory, Conclusions There, Validity There, Culture-Fair Test, General Aptitude Test Battery, Purdue Pegboard, Strong Vocational Interest Blank, Beck Depression Inventory, Comments There, Conclusions These, Government Printing Office, Norms There, Reliability Both, Strong Interest Blank, Vocational Interest Measure New!
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