Intended for courses in psychological testing or tests and measurement. A junior/senior level course, it is taught in departments of psychology and taken exclusively by psychology majors. It covers the principles of testing and measurement, the major types of tests such as Wechsler, Rorschach, and Binet, and then addresses issues and controversies that affect testing.
Part I: PRINCIPLES. 1. Introduction. 2. Norms and Basic Statistics for Testing. 3. Correlation and Regression. 4. Reliability. 5. Validity. 6. Writing and Evaluating Test Items. 7. Test Administration. Part II: APPLICATIONS. 8. Interviewing Techniques. 9. Theories of Intelligence and the Binet Scales. 10. The Wechsler Intelligence Scales: WAIS-III, WISC-IV, and WPPSI-III. 11. Testing in Education: Tests of Ability in Education and Special Education. 12. Standardized Tests in Education, Civil Service, and the Military 13. Applications in Clinical and Counseling Settings. 14. Projective Personality Tests. 15. Computers and Basic Psychological Science in Testing 16. Testing in Counseling Psychology. 17. Testing in Health Psychology and Health Care. 18. Testing in Industrial and Business Settings. Part III: ISSUES. 19. Test Bias. 20. Testing and the Law 21. Ethics and the Future of Psychological Testing.