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The fourth edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment, provides scholarly overviews of the major areas of psychological assessment, including test development, psychometrics, technology of testing, and commonly used assessment measures.
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128022030 |
| Summary: |
The fourth edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment, provides scholarly overviews of the major areas of psychological assessment, including test development, psychometrics, technology of testing, and commonly used assessment measures. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: |
9780128025147 012802514X |
| Index Number: | BF176 |
| CLC: | B841.7 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Handbook of Psychological Assessment; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; I. Introduction; 1 Historical perspectives; Introduction; Intelligence and achievement testing; Personality assessment; The interview; Projective personality tests; Objective personality tests; Neuropsychological assessment; Behavioral assessment; Assessment schemes; DSMs and behavioral assessment; Summary; Recent developments; References; Further reading; II. Psychometric Foundations; 2 How to develop an empirically based psychological test; Introduction Phase I: Test conceptualizationEstablish a need; Specify proposed applications; Specify users; Specify conceptual and operational definitions of constructs; Phase II: Specify test format and structure; Specify age range; Specify test format; Specify internal structure; Develop a table of specifications or test blueprint; Specify item format; Select the item format that most directly measures the construct; Select item formats that promote reliability and validity; Estimate how many items to include; Plan for item development; Specify methods for item tryout and selection Diversity panel reviewSpecify a plan for item tryout; Specify the statistical methods you will use to select items; Phase III: Planning standardization, scaling, and psychometric studies; Specify standardization plan; Specify scaling methods; Scales of measurement; Nominal scales; Ordinal scales; Interval scales; Ratio scales; Specify reliability/precision studies; Test-retest coefficients; Alternate-form coefficients; Internal consistency coefficients; Interrater reliability; Specify validity studies; Evidence based on test content; Evidence based on relations to other variables Phase IV: Plan implementationSubmit a test proposal; Implement plan, reevaluate, and modify test; Prepare the test manual; Concluding comments; References; III. Assessment of Intelligence; 3 Interpreting pediatric intelligence tests: a framework from evidence-based medicine; Introduction; A brief history; Framework for interpreting intelligence tests; Qualitative-idiographic approaches; Qualitative-nomothetic approaches; Quantitative-idiographic approaches; Quantitative-nomothetic approaches; Review of two frequently used individually administered tests of intelligence for youth Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-fifth edition (WISC-V)Theory; Standardization; Properties; Useful details for additional interpretation; Critique; Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-IV COG); Theory; Standardization; Properties; Critique; References; 4 The development, expansion, and future of the WAIS-IV as a cornerstone in comprehensive cognitive assessments; Introduction; WAIS-IV: development, advances, and future directions; WAIS-IV development approach; Subtest level changes; Verbal Comprehension; Perceptual reasoning; Working Memory; Processing Speed; New subtests |