Exercises in Psychological Testing - Softcover

Condon, Margaret E.; Hollis-Sawyer, Lisa A.; Thornton, George C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205337872 ISBN 13: 9780205337873

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2002

Synopsis

A workbook with tear-out pages to be used in a graduate or undergraduate course on psychological testing to provide students with hands-on experience in various aspects of test development and use. Among them are giving and scoring several kinds of tests, constructing measurement scales, computing norms, and evaluating test reliability. There is no index or bibliography. The CiP and the back cover do not agree on an ISBN. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) This book provides hands-on experience in many aspects of the psychological testing process, including administering and scoring tests, test construction, norming, and exploration of reliability and validity. This exercise manual can be used to enhance any undergraduate course in psychological testing and assessment. The topics covered involve those most commonly taught in this course and most familiar and interesting to students. Some of the tests used are employed in various exercises so students can follow them through aspects of development. Provides hands-on experience in many aspects of the testing process, including administering and scoring tests, test construction, norming, and exploration of reliability and validity. This exercise manual can be used as a stand-alone item in a laboratory-based course or as a supplement to any standard textbook in psychological testing and assessment. The topics covered are those most commonly taught in this course and most familiar and interesting to students. Several tests are employed in various exercises so students can follow them through aspects of development.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This helpful exercise manual can be used as a stand alone text for a laboratory course or can accompany any psychological testing textbook. It is designed to give students hands-on experience in many aspects of the testing process including the administering and scoring of different types of tests, test confstuction, norming, and exploration of reliability and validity.

Material is presented in a step-by-step format that leads students through the process and all necessary materials are listed at the begininning of each exercise. In addition, helpful forms are included as templates for immediate application and each exercise is followed by several discussion questions to extend learning. Statistical Appendices provide step-by-step instructions for producing more complicated statistics used in each exercise.

A helpful Instructor's Manual provides an overview of each exercise with a key to the appropriate chapter and section of many popular psychological testing textbooks.

 

 

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About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0205337872
• ISBN 13: 9780205337873
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 305