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Testing, assessment, and measurement
Psychological tests, also known as psychometric tests, are standardized instruments that are used to measure behavior or mental attributes. These attributes may include attitudes, emotional functioning, intelligence and cognitive abilities, aptitude, values, interests, personality characteristics, and more.
• Test developers, who generate test content and are involved in collecting evidence for psychometric reliability, validity in pre-dicting key outcomes, and equity across different subgroups of interest. • Educators and trainers who are responsible for instruction on psychological assessment, testing, and evaluation.
Understanding psychological testing and assessment
2013年11月10日 · A norm-referenced test of a child’s reading abilities, for example, may rank that child’s ability compared to other children of similar age or grade level. Norm-referenced tests have been developed and evaluated by researchers and proven to be effective for measuring a particular trait or disorder.
FAQs: Disclosure of Test Data and Test Materials
2019年4月11日 · Appropriate information about the testing process might include the purpose of testing, use of test data and test materials, time required for testing, and who will or will not have access to test data and test materials, except when such information would threaten the psychometric properties of the test, or when the nature of the psychologist ...
APA PsycTests
Dive into the wide range of test types including test batteries, questionnaires, rating scales, surveys, and much more. Institutional trial Evaluate this resource free for 30 days to determine if it meets your library’s research needs.
The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing The testing standards are a product of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
FAQ: Finding information about psychological tests
Each entry consists of the test title, intended population, publication date, acronym (if applicable), author, publisher, foreign adaptations and references. There are no critical reviews or psychometric information on the tests; detailed information on individual tests is available in other reference books such as MMY or Test Critiques.
PTSD Assessment Instruments - American Psychological …
Psychometric analysis of the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5) among treatment-seeking military service members. Psychological Assessment, 28 (11), 1392-1403. The PCL for DSM-IV is the version used in earlier research:
IAT: Fad or fabulous? - American Psychological Association (APA)
2008年7月1日 · The IAT has also attracted its share of critics. Some debate the test's psychometric validity and reliability. Others worry that the publicity is pushing it into the public sphere--particularly into the hands of legal scholars who argue it can be used to reshape antidiscrimination laws--before it's been properly vetted.
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