Psychological testing: principles, applications, & issues

✍ Scribed by Kaplan, Robert Malcolm;Saccuzzo, Dennis P

Publisher: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 770
Edition: 8th ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

pt. 1. Principles. Introduction -- Norms and basic statistics for testing -- Correlation and regression -- Reliability -- Validity -- Writing and evaluating test items -- Test administration -- pt. 2. Applications. Interviewing techniques -- Theories of intelligence and the Binet scales -- The Wechsler Intelligence Scales : WAIS-III, WISC-IV, and WPPSI-III -- Other individual tests of ability in education and special education -- Standardized tests in education, civil service, and the military -- Applications in clinical and counseling settings -- Projective personality tests -- Computers and basic psychological science in testing -- Testing in counseling psychology -- Testing in health psychology and health care -- Testing in industrial and business settings -- pt. 3. Issues. Test bias -- Testing and the law -- Ethics and the future of psychological testing.

✦ Table of Contents

pt. 1. Principles. Introduction --
Norms and basic statistics for testing --
Correlation and regression --
Reliability --
Validity --
Writing and evaluating test items --
Test administration --
pt. 2. Applications. Interviewing techniques --
Theories of intelligence and the Binet scales --
The Wechsler Intelligence Scales : WAIS-III, WISC-IV, and WPPSI-III --
Other individual tests of ability in education and special education --
Standardized tests in education, civil service, and the military --
Applications in clinical and counseling settings --
Projective personality tests --
Computers and basic psychological science in testing --
Testing in counseling psychology --
Testing in health psychology and health care --
Testing in industrial and business settings --
pt. 3. Issues. Test bias --
Testing and the law --
Ethics and the future of psychological testing.

✦ Subjects

Psychological Tests;Psychologische Diagnostik;Test;Testtheorie;;Psychological tests

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