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1 online resource |
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Halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Content -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1 The Context of Psychological Testing and Assessment -- Chapter 1: Psychological Tests: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them? -- Introduction -- A brief history of psychological testing -- Psychological tests: why do we need them? -- Psychological tests: definitions, advantages and limitations -- Chapter 2: Psychological Testing and Assessment: Processes, Best Practice and Ethics -- Introduction -- Psychological testing versus psychological assessment -- Areas of application |
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Types of psychological tests -- Processes and best practices in psychological testing -- Ethics -- Accommodating the differently abled -- Cultural differences, testing and assessment -- PART 2 Methodological and Technical Principles of Psychological Testing -- Chapter 3: Test Scores and Norms -- Introduction -- Interpreting test scores -- Transforming scores for norm referencing -- Standard scores and transformed scores based on them -- Percentiles and transformed scores based on them -- Relationships among the transformed scores -- Other methods of scoring -- Norms -- Chapter 4: Reliability |
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Introduction -- The meaning of reliability -- The domain-sampling model -- Calculating reliability coefficients -- Extending the domain-sampling model -- Some special issues -- Chapter 5: Validity -- Introduction -- The meaning of validity -- Content validity -- Predictive validity -- Construct validity -- Factor analysis -- Chapter 6: Test Construction -- Introduction -- The rational-empirical approach -- Specification of the attribute -- Literature search -- Choice of a measurement model -- Item writing and editing -- Item analysis and selection -- Assessing reliability and validity |
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Norming the test -- Publication -- PART 3 Substantive Testing and Assessment Areas -- Chapter 7: Intelligence -- Introduction -- The concept of intelligence -- Binet's revolution -- Spearman and 'g' -- Terman and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale -- Wechsler scales -- Thurstone and multiple mental abilities -- Guilford: A different structure of intelligence -- Vernon's hierarchical view of intelligence -- Cattell's two-factor theory of intelligence -- Cattell, Horn and Carroll extend the 'Gf-Gc' model of intelligence -- The Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model of intelligence |
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The CHC model and modern tests of intelligence -- A developmental conception of intelligence -- An information-processing view of intelligence -- Gardner and multiple intelligences -- Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence -- So, 'what is intelligence?' -- Aptitude versus achievement tests -- Group (rather than individual) testing -- Group differences in intelligence -- Chapter 8: Personality -- Introduction -- The psychoanalytic approach -- The interpersonal approach -- The personological approach -- The multivariate (trait) approach -- The empirical approach |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Gorman, John, author
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Myors, Brett, author
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Creed, Peter (Professor of psychology), author.
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| ISBN |
9780190305215 |
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0190305215 |
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