Handbook of Psychological Testing

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of figures and tables......Page 9
Introduction to the first edition......Page 10
Introduction to the second edition......Page 12
SECTION I Psychometric theory and method......Page 14
1 Reliability of tests: practical issues......Page 16
2 The validity of psychological tests......Page 26
3 The classical model of test error......Page 41
4 Standardising the test......Page 58
5 Rasch scaling and other scales......Page 79
6 Computerised and tailored testing......Page 106
7 Factor analysis......Page 122
8 Factor analysis: rotation of factors and other topics......Page 145
9 Test construction: the criterion-keyed method......Page 162
10 Test construction: factor analytic and item analytic methods......Page 170
11 Other methods of test construction......Page 191
SECTION II Types of psychological tests: rationale and problems......Page 206
12 Intelligence tests......Page 208
13 Ability tests......Page 226
14 Aptitude and attainment tests......Page 238
15 Personality questionnaires......Page 256
16 Projective and objective tests of personality......Page 286
17 Interest and motivation tests......Page 312
18 Other types of psychological tests......Page 334
SECTION III The use and interpretation of tests......Page 356
19 Tests in educational psychology......Page 358
20 Psychometric tests in clinical psychology......Page 377
21 Tests in counselling and guidance......Page 415
22 Psychological tests in occupational and industrial psychology......Page 428
SECTION IV Psychological tests: lists, descriptions and evaluations......Page 454
23 Intelligence tests......Page 456
24 Ability, aptitude and attainment tests......Page 481
25 Personality questionnaires......Page 498
26 Projective and objective tests......Page 548
27 Motivation and interest tests......Page 589
28 Measures of attitudes......Page 602
29 Other tests......Page 624
30 The New Psychometrics......Page 643
31 Finale......Page 677
APPENDICES......Page 680
1 Statistical formulae......Page 682
2 Glossary......Page 686
References......Page 692
Name index......Page 731
Subject index......Page 739