An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is
the successor to Cooper's prize-winning book and shows how
psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen, administered,
scored, interpreted and developed. In providing students,
researchers, test users, test developers and practitioners in the
social sciences, education and health with an evaluative guide to
choosing, using, interpreting and developing tests, it provides
readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of
testing, together with the necessary methodological detail. This
book has three distinctive features. First, it stresses the basic
logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with
mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are
integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave,
rather than reading equations. Readers will "learn by doing".
Second, it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment
and the practicalities of locating, designing and using tests and
interpreting their scores. Finally, it is evaluative. Rather than
just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive
testing, it stresses the underlying principles, merits and
drawbacks of each approach to assessment, and methods of developing
and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an
introductory text, it includes coverage of several cutting-edge
techniques, and this new edition expands the discussion on
measurement invariance, methods of detecting/quantifying bias and
hierarchical factor models, and features added sections on: -Best
practices for translation of tests into other languages and
problems of cultural bias - Automatic item generation - The
advantages, drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing
- Generalizability theory - Network analysis - Dangerous
assumptions made when scoring tests - The accuracy of tests used
for assessing individuals - The two-way relationship between
psychometrics and psychological theory. Aimed at
non-mathematicians, this friendly and engaging text will help you
to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that
underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any
psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and
accompanied by additional resources, including a set of
spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to
illustrate important issues, this is an essential introduction for
all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very
little statistical background and is written for students studying
psychological assessment or psychometrics, and for researchers and
practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure
personality, cognitive abilities, educational attainment, mood or
motivation.
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