Psychological Testing and Assessment

7 Rev ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-122037-8
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 1430 g

Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement is the standard-setting text that through seven editions has overviewed measurement in psychology with unrivaled depth, breadth, and clarity. Logically organized and lucidly written, this book acquaints readers with important historical, legal, ethical, and cultural issues, and then proceeds to provide readers with the information necessary to understand psychometric concepts such as reliability, validity, and utility. Through writing that effectively anchors abstract concepts to real-life applications--and through the use of innovative teaching tools such as "Just Think" questions and the "Everyday Psychometrics" features in the text--readers will come away with a well-rounded, working knowledge of psychometrics and the assessment enterprise in a contemporary, real world context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Ronald Jay

Swerdlik, Mark E.

Swerdlik, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Berufe, Ausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: An OverviewChapter 1: PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENTTESTING AND ASSESSMENTTesting and Assessment DefinedThe process of assessment THE TOOLS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTThe TestThe InterviewThe PortfolioCase History DataBehavioral ObservationRole-Play TestsComputers as ToolsOther toolsWHO, WHAT, WHY, HOW, AND WHERE?Who Are the Parties?The test developerThe test userThe testtakerSociety at largeOther partiesIn What Types of Settings Are Assessments Conducted, and Why?Educational settingsClinical settingCounseling settingsGeriatric settingsBusiness and military settingsGovernmental and organizational credentialingOther settingsHow Are Assessments Conducted?Assessment of People with DisabilitiesWhere To Go for Authoritative Information: Reference SourcesTest cataloguesTest manualsReference volumesJournal articlesOnline databasesOther sourcesClose-up: Should Observers be Parties to the Assessment Process?Everyday Psychometrics: Everyday Accommodations Meet a Test User:Meet Dr. Barbara PavloSelf AssessmentChapter 2Historical, Cultural, and Legal/Ethical ConsiderationsA HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEAntiquity to the Nineteenth CenturyThe Twentieth CenturyThe measurement of intelligenceThe measurement of personalityThe academic and applied traditionsCULTURE AND ASSESSMENTEvolving Interest in Culture-Related IssuesSome Issues Regarding Culture and AssessmentVerbal communicationNonverbal communication and behaviorStandards of evaluationTests and Group MembershipPsychology, tests, and public policyLEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONSThe Concerns of the PublicLegislationLitigationThe Concerns of the ProfessionTest-user qualificationsTesting people with disabilitiesComputerized test administration, scoring, and interpretationThe Rights of TesttakersThe right of informed consentThe right to be informed of test findingsThe right to privacy and confidentialityThe right to the least stigmatizing labelClose-up: The Controversial Henry Herbert Goddard Everyday Psychometrics: Life-or-Death Psychological AssessmentMeet A Test User: Meet Dr. Diana D. JefferySelf-AssessmentPART II The Science of Psychological MeasurementChapter 3A Statistics RefresherSCALES OF MEASUREMENTNominal ScalesOrdinal ScalesInterval ScalesRatio ScalesMeasurement Scales in PsychologyDESCRIBING DATAFrequency DistributionsMeasures of Central TendencyThe arithmetic meanThe medianThe modeMeasures of VariabilityThe rangeThe interquartile and the semi-interquartile rangesThe average deviationThe standard deviationSkewnessKurtosisTHE NORMAL CURVEThe Area Under the Normal CurveSTANDARD SCORESz ScoresT ScoresOther Standard ScoresNormalized standard scoresClose-up: The Normal Curve and Psychological TestsEveryday Psychometrics: Consumer (of Graphed Data), Beware!Meet a Test User: Meet Dr. Jeff LaurentSelf-AssessmentChapter 4OF TESTS AND TESTINGSOME ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENTAssumption 1: Psychological Traits and States ExistAssumption 2: Psychological Traits and States Can Be Quantified and MeasuredAssumption 3: Test-Related Behavior Predicts Non-Test-Related BehaviorAssumption 4: Tests and Other Measurement Techniques Have Strengths and WeaknessesAssumption 5: Various Sources of Error Are Part of the Assessment ProcessAssumption 6: Testing and Assessment Can Be Conducted in a Fair and Unbiased MannerAssumption 7: Testing and Assessment Benefit SocietyWHAT’S A "GOOD TEST"?ReliabilityValidityOther ConsiderationsNORMSSampling to D

Über Autor(innen)

Cohen, Ronald Jay
Ronald Jay Cohen, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Psychology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology (ABAP). He is a New York State licensed psychologist, and a scientist-practitioner and scholar-professional in the finest traditions of each of those terms. During a long and gratifying professional career in which he has published numerous journal articles and books, Dr. Cohen has had the privilege of personally working alongside some of the luminaries in the field of psychological assessment,including David Wechsler (while Cohen was a clinical psychology intern at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City) and Doug Bray (while working as an assessor for AT&T in its Management Progress Study). After serving his clinical psychology internship at Bellevue, Dr. Cohen was appointed Senior Psychologist there, and his clinical duties entailed not only psychological assessment but the supervision and training of others in this enterprise. Subsequently, as an independent practitioner in the New York City area, Dr. Cohen taught various courses at local universities on an adjunct basis, including undergraduate and graduate courses in psychological assessment.Asked by a colleague to conduct a qualitative research study for an advertising agency,Dr. Cohen would quickly become a sought-after qualitative research consultant with a client list of major companies and organizationsamong them Paramount Pictures,Columbia Pictures, NBC Television, the Campbell Soup Company, Educational Testing Service, and the College Board. Dr. Cohens approach to qualitative research, referred to by him as dimensional qualitative research, has been emulated and written about by qualitative researchers around the world. Working as a consultant to one major company that wanted to learn more about its corporate culture, Dr. Cohen developed the Discussion of Organizational Culture (a qualitative research instrument discussed in Chapter 16). It was Dr. Cohens work in the area of qualitative assessment that led him to found the scholarly journal Psychology & Marketing, which in 2012 celebrated some 30 years of consecutive publishing with Dr. Cohen as editor-in-chief.

Swerdlik, Mark
Mark E. Swerdlik, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University,where he has taught the undergraduate psychological measurement course, conducted professional seminars addressing legal/ethical issues in assessment, and supervised practicum students in assessment. He has served as an editorial board member of several journals, written test reviews for several journals, reviewed test-scoring software for a major test publisher, and served as a reviewer for the Mental Measurements Yearbook.In various professional capacities, he has participated in the standardization of many psychological tests, including, for example, the WISC-R, the WISC-III, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), the Stanford-Binet IV, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale, the Psychological Processing Checklist (PPC), and the Psychological Processing Checklist-Revised (PPC-R). As a licensed clinical psychologist,a nationally certified school psychologist, independent practitioner, and consultant,Dr. Swerdlik administers and interprets psychological tests, and conducts seminars to train fellow professionals in proper test administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures. He has also served as a program evaluator for many programs, a partial listing of which would include the Heart of Illinois Low Incidence Association (HILA),the Autism/Pervasive Developmental Delays Training and Technical Assistance Project, and the Illinois National Guard Statewide Reintegration Program for Combat Veterans(for veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, from 2006 to the present).