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| An Overview | |
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| Psychological Testing And Assessment Testing And Assessment Testing and Assessment Defined | |
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| The process of assessment | |
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| The Tools Of Psychological Assessment | |
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| The Test | |
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| The Interview The Portfolio Case History Data Behavioral Observation Role-Play Tests Computers as Tools Other tools Who, What, Why, How, And Where? | |
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| Who Are the Parties? | |
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| The test developer | |
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| The test user The testtaker Society at large Other parties In What Types of Settings Are Assessments Conducted, and Why? | |
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| Educational settings Clinical setting Counseling settings Geriatric settings Business and military settings Governmental and organizational credentialing Other settings How Are Assessments Conducted? | |
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| Assessment of People with Disabilities Where To Go for Authoritative Information: Reference Sources Test catalogues Test manuals Reference volumes Journal articles Online databases Other sources Close-up: Should Observers be Parties to the Assessment Process? | |
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| Everyday Psychometrics: Everyday Accommodations Meet a Test User: Meet | |
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| Historical, Cultural, and Legal/Ethical Considerations | |
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| A Historical Perspective Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| The measurement of intelligence | |
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| The measurement of personality | |
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| The academic and applied traditions | |
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| Culture And Assessment Evolving Interest in Culture-Related Issues Some Issues Regarding Culture and Assessment Verbal communication Nonverbal communication and behavior Standards of evaluation Tests and Group Membership Psychology, tests, and public policy | |
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| Legal And Ethical Considerations | |
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| The Concerns of the Public Legislation Litigation | |
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| The Concerns of the Profession Test-user qualifications Testing people with disabilities Computerized test administration, scoring, and interpretation | |
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| The Rights of Testtakers | |
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| The right of informed consent | |
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| The right to be informed of test findings | |
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| The right to privacy and confidentiality | |
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| The right to the least stigmatizing label Close-up: The Controversial Henry Herbert Goddard Everyday Psychometrics: Life-or-Death Psychological Assessment Meet A Test User: Meet | |
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| The Science of Psychological Measurement | |
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| A Statistics Refresher | |
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| Scales Of Measurement | |
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| Nominal Scales Ordinal Scales Interval Scales Ratio Scales Measurement Scales in Psychology | |
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| Describing Data | |
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| Frequency Distributions Measures of Central Tendency | |
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| The arithmetic mean | |
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| The median | |
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| The mode Measures of Variability | |
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| The range | |
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| The interquartile and the semi-interquartile ranges | |
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| The average deviation | |
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| The standard deviation Skewness Kurtosis | |
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| The Normal Curve | |
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| The Area Under the Normal Curve | |
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| Standard Scores z Scores | |
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| T Scores Other Standard Scores Normalized standard scores Close-up: The Normal Curve and Psychological Tests Everyday Psychometrics: Consumer (of Graphed Data), Beware! Meet a Test User: Meet Dr. Jeff Laurent Self-Assessment | |
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| Of Tests And Testing Some Assumptions About Psychological Testing And Assessment | |
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| Psychological Traits and States Exist | |
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| Psychological Traits and States Can Be Quantified and Measured | |
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| Test-Related Behavior Predicts Non-Test-Related behavior | |
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| Tests and Other Measurement Techniques Have Strengths and Weaknesses | |
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| Various Sources of Err | |