Contents: -


Section I: Overview of Psychological Testing
1. What are psychological tests?
2. Why is psychological testing important?
3. Is there a right or wrong way to use psychological Tests?
4. How does computerized testing work?


Section II: Psychometric Principles
5. How do test users interpret test scores?
6. What is test Reliability?
7. How do we gather evidence of validity based on the content of a test?
8. How do we gather evidence of validity based on a test's relationships with external criteria?
9. How do we gather evidence of validity based on a test's relation to constructs?


Section III: Developing and Piloting Surveys and Psychological Tests?
10. How do we construct, administer, and use survey data?
11. How do we develop a test?
12. How do we assess the psychometric quality of a test?


Section IV: Using tests in Different Settings
13. How are tests used in educational settings?
14. How are tests used in clinical and counselling settings?
15. How are Tests used in organisational settings?

Appendix A: Test spotlights
Appendix B: Guidelines for critiquing a psychological test
Appendix C: Code of fair testing practices in education
Appendix D: Table of Critical Calues for persons product-moment correlation coefficients
Glossary
References
Photo Credits
Index