- Your students will get valuable practice in interpreting actual excerpts from published test manuals.
- Each of the 39 exercises begins with a guideline that helps students review the measurement concepts they will need in order to complete the exercise.
- Background notes on each exercise describe the purpose of the test from which the excerpt was drawn.
- Students answer questions that require them to locate and interpret important points in the excerpt.
- The excerpts are largely unabridged so that students practice interpreting material as it is actually presented by test makers.
- The skills they learn with this book can be easily transferred to other test manuals they may be using in the future.
- Students have an ethical responsibility to be thoroughly familiar with the technical characteristics of the tests they will use. This book prepares them for this responsibility.
- All major topics are covered, including:
- validity
- reliability
- standard error of measurement
- norm group composition
- derived scores
- scales to detect faking
- item analysis
- cultural bias
- The excerpts are drawn from tests such as:
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
- 16PF
- Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale
- MMPI
- Beck Depression Inventory
- Stanford Achievement Test Series
- KeyMath
- and many others!
