Table of Contents:
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 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 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 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 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