PSY 460 - Psychological Test and Measurement: Books and eBooks

"It provides a complete review of the most commonly used assessment instruments and the most efficient methods for selecting and administering tests, evaluating data, and integrating results into a coherent, problem-solving report. Updated reviews and interpretive guidelines are included for the most frequently used assessment techniques, including structured and unstructured interviews, Wechlser intelligence scales (WAIS-III/WISC-III), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2/MMPI-A), Millon Multiaxial Clinical Inventory-III, California Psychological Inventory, Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test, and frequently used instruments for neuropsychological screening (e.g., Bender Gestalt and Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test)." From web description.

Describes the development, variables measured, and administration and scoring procedures of 84 tests of personal, interpersonal, group, and organizational behavior. A critique of each measure is included, along with a review of 20 other compendia of tests.

This book is concerned with techniques for the construction of attitude scales. Describes methods like judging groups, paired comparisons, equal-appearing intervals, and successive intervals; response methods, scale-discrimination technique, H-technique, and cumulative scales.

"Starting with a basic introduction to psychological tests, their historical development, and their uses, the book also covers the statistical procedures most frequently used in testing, the frames of reference for score interpretation, reliability, validity and test item considerations, as well as the latest guidelines for test selection, administration, scoring and reporting test results. Whether as an orientation for those new to the field, a refresher for those already acquainted with it, or as reference for seasoned clinicians, this book is an invaluable resource." Description from catalog.

Part 1: reviews test design practices being used in test development
Part 2: design variables from psychological theory that includes implications of verbal comprehension theories in the role of intelligence and the effects of these implications on goals, design, scoring, and validation of tests
Part 3: discusses the latent trait models for test design that have numerous advantages in problems involving item banking, test equating, and computerized adaptive testing.
Part 4: examines test designs from the perspective of test developments in the future integrating technology, cognitive science, and psychometric theories.

Includes Hunt, Frost, and Lunnerbog Theory and single-latency distribution model.

This book presents a state of the art exposition of theoretical, methodological and applied issues in Psychometrics. This book represents a thorough cross section of internationally renowned thinkers who are inventing methods for dealing with recent challenging psychometric problems." Description from website.

Chapters include: History and overview of psychometrics, classical test theory, equating test scores, and many more that may be of interest.

"This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this reshaping, identifies a fundamental problem: the issue of whether psychological attributes really are quantitative. It argues that the idea of measurement now endorsed within psychology actually subverts attempts to establish a genuinely quantitative science and it urges a new direction. It relates views on measurement by thinkers such as Holder, Russell, Campbell and Nagel to earlier views, like those of Euclid and Oresme." Description from catalog.

"This is a reference book for measures of attitude or personality." From web description.

"The Clinician's Handbook of Adult Behavioral Assessment provides a single source for understanding new developments in this field, cutting across strategies, techniques, and disorders. Assessment strategies are presented in context with the research behind those strategies, along with discussions of clinical utility, and how assessment and conceptualization fit in with treatment planning." From web description.

"The fully revised and updated second edition of this well-established reference provides over 400 new or improved terms, and is an exhaustive guide to the key terms used in psychological testing, assessment and measurement. Over 3000 definitions offer clear explanations of statistical procedures commonly used in psychology; major psychometric and other psychological tests; categories of mental illness, mental disability, and brain damage; frequently used medical terms; basic neuroanatomy; and types of psychological therapies." Description from catalog.