AuthorKaplan, Robert M
TitlePsychological testing : principles, applications, and issues / Robert M. Kaplan, Dennis P. Saccuzzo
ImprintPacific Grove, Calif. : Brooks/Cole, c1993
Edition Third edition
Connect tohttp://161.200.107.144/ebookK/cb10010592.pdf
Descript xxi, 709 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Part I: Principles -- Introduction -- Norms and basic statistics for testing -- Correlation and regression -- Reliability -- Validity -- Building a test -- Selection and decision analysis -- Test Administration -- Part II: Applications -- Interview Techniques -- Tests of mental ability: the binet scale -- The Wechsler Intelligence Scales -- Other individual tests of ability -- Group ability tests: intelligence, achievement, and aptitude -- Tests for choosing careers -- Structured personality tests -- Projective personality tests -- Alternatives to traditional psychological tests -- Measures of anxiety and stress -- Testing in health care setting -- Part III: Issues -- Test bias -- Testing and the law -- The future of psychological testing -- Appendix 1: Areas of a standard normal distribution -- Appendix 2: Publishers of major tests -- Appendix 3: Critical values of R for A =.05 and A =.01 (two-tailed test) -- Appendix 4: Critical values of T -- Appendix 5: Code of fair testing practices in education


SUBJECT

  1. Psychological tests

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Central Library : Stack (Contact Staff)150.287 K17P 1993 CHECK SHELVES
Medicine LibraryWM145 AA168p 1993 SCANNED