The Handbook of Psychological TestingSince publication in its first edition the Handbook of Psychological Testing has become the standard text for organisational and educational psychologists. It offers the only comprehensicve, modern and clear account of the whole of the field of psychometrics. It covers psychometric theory, the different kinds of psychological test, applied psychological testing, and the evaluation of the best published psychological tests. It is outstanding for its detailed and complete coverage of the field, its clarity (even for the non-mathematical) and its emphasis on the practical application of psychometric theory in psychology and education, as well as in vocational, occupational and clinical fields. |
Contents
List of figures and tables | 1 |
SECTION | 2 |
practical issues | 7 |
The validity of psychological tests | 17 |
The classical model of test error | 41 |
17 | 54 |
Standardising the test | 61 |
Rasch scaling and other scales | 70 |
Interest and motivation tests | 303 |
Other types of psychological tests | 325 |
SECTION III | 347 |
Tests in educational psychology | 349 |
Psychometric tests in clinical psychology | 368 |
Tests in counselling and guidance | 406 |
Psychological tests in occupational and industrial psychology | 419 |
SECTION IV | 445 |
Computerised and tailored testing | 97 |
Factor analysis | 121 |
rotation of factors and other topics | 136 |
the criterionkeyed method | 153 |
factor analytic and item analytic | 161 |
Other methods of test construction | 182 |
rationale and problems | 197 |
Intelligence tests | 199 |
Ability tests | 217 |
Aptitude and attainment tests | 229 |
Personality questionnaires | 247 |
Projective and objective tests of personality | 277 |
Intelligence tests | 447 |
Ability aptitude and attainment tests | 472 |
Personality questionnaires | 489 |
Projective and objective tests | 539 |
Motivation and interest tests | 580 |
Measures of attitudes | 593 |
Other tests | 615 |
The New Psychometrics | 634 |
Finale | 668 |
683 | |
Name index | 722 |