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Psychological Testing and Assessment Book Cover
Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction To Tests and Measurement, 5/e
Ronald Jay Cohen
Mark Swerdlik


Table of Contents

Preface

PART I: AN OVERVIEW

1.Psychological Testing and Assessment

Testing and Assessment

Who, What, and Why?

Evaluating the Quality of Tests

Close-Up  Error of Measurement and the True Score Model

Everyday Psychometrics  Putting Tests to the Test

Self-Assessment

2. Historical, Cultural, and Legal/Ethical Considerations

An Historical Perspective

Culture and Assessment

Legal and Ethical Considerations

Close-Up  Life or Death Psychological Assessment

Everyday Psychometrics  Expert Testimony

 Self-Assessment

PART II: THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT

3. A Statistics Refresher

Scales of Measurement

Describing Data

The Normal Curve

Standard Scores

Close-Up  The Normal Curve and Psychological Tests

Everyday Psychometrics  Consumer (of Graphed Data) Beware!

Self-Assessment

4. Norms, Correlation, and Inference

Norms

Correlation and Regression

Inference from Measurement

Close-Up  Almost Everything You May Want to Know About the Development of the Pearson

Everyday Psychometrics  Good Ol’ Norms and the GRE

Self-Assessment

5. Reliability

The Concept of Reliability

Reliability Estimates

Using and Interpreting a Coefficient of Reliability

Reliability and Individual Scores

Close-Up  The Reliability of the Bayley Scales for Infant Development

Everyday Psychometrics  The Reliability Defense and the Breathalyzer Test

Self-Assessment

6. Validity

The Concept of Validity

Content Validity

Criterion-Related Validity

Construct Validity

Validity, Bias, and Fairness

Close-Up  >Base Rates and Predictive Validity

Everyday Psychometrics  Adjustment of Test Scores by Group Membership: Fairness in Testing or Foul Play?

Self-Assessment

7. Test Development

Test Conceptualization

Test Construction

Test Tryout

Item Analysis

Test Revision

Close-Up  Anatomy of the Development of a Test: The Personality Research Form

Everyday Psychometrics  Psychometrics in the Classroom

Self-Assessment

PART III: THE ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE

8. Intelligence and Its Measurement

What Is Intelligence?

Measuring Intelligence

Intelligence: Some Issues

A Perspective

Everyday Psychometrics The Bell Curve Controversy

Close-Up Culture-Fair/Culture-Loaded

Self-Assessment

9. Tests of Intelligence

The Stanford-Binet: Fourth Edition

The Wechsler Tests

Other Measures of Intelligence

Close-Up  How We Used Confirmatory Factor Analysis to Test the Structure of the WISC-III, by Timothy Z. Keith, Ph.D. and E. Lea Witta, Ph.D.

Everyday Psychometrics  The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB): A Test You Can Take Self-Assessment

10. Preschool and Educational Assessment

Preschool Assessment

Achievement Tests

Aptitude Tests

Diagnostic Tests

Psychoeducational Test Batteries

Other Tools of Assessment in Educational Settings

Close-Up  >Tests of Minimum Competency

Everyday Psychometrics  Adapting to Adaptive Testing: The Case of the GRE

Self-Assessment

PART IV:  THE ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY

11. Personality Assessment: An Overview

Personality and Personality Assessment Defined

Personality Assessment: Some Basic Questions

Personality Assessment and Culture

Tools of Test Development

Issues and Trends in Personality Assessment

Close-Up  The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), by Paul T. Costa, Jr., Ph.D. and Robert R. McCrae, Ph.D.

Everyday Psychometrics  Assessing Acculturation and Related Variables

Self-Assessment

12. Personality Assessment Methods

Objective Methods

Projective Methods

Behavioral Assessment Methods

A Perspective

Close-Up  Developing Norms for a Projective Test, by Glen Roberts, Ph.D.

Everyday Psychometrics  Confessions of a Behavior Rater

Self-Assessment

PART V: TESTING AND ASSESSMENT IN ACTION

13. Clinical and Counseling Assessment

An Overview

The Interview

Case History Data

Psychological Tests

Special Applications of Clinical Measures

The Psychological Report

Close-Up  The DSM-IV

Everyday Psychometrics  Assessment of Dangerousness and the Secret Service

14. Neuropsychological Assessment

The Nervous System and Behavior

The Neuropsychological Examination

Tools of Neuropsychological Assessment

Neuropsychological Test Batteries

A Perspective

Close-Up  The Daubert Standard and Fixed Versus Flexible Neuropsychological Test Batteries

15. The Assessment of People with Disabilities

An Overview

Assessment and Specific Disabilities

Disability as a Diversity Issue

Close-Up  A Modest Proposal for a Model Form

Everyday Psychometrics  Public Law 105-17 and Everyday Practice

Self-Assessment

16. Assessment, Careers, and Business

Career Counseling

Screening, Selection, Classification, and Placement

Assessment of Productivity, Motivation, and Attitude

Other Applications of Assessment

Close-Up  Validity Generalization and the GATB

Everyday Psychometrics  Designing Survey Research Questionnaires

Self-Assessment

17. Computer-Assisted Psychological Assessment

An Overview

Computer Input

Computer Output

Issues in CAPA

Close-Up  Designing an Item Bank

Everyday Psychometrics  Computer-Assisted Behavioral Assessment

References

Credits

Name Index

Subject Index