Colin Cooper

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment (eBook, ePUB)

Using, Interpreting and Developing Tests

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The successor to Cooper's prize-winning book and shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen, administered, scored, interpreted and developed. An evaluative guide to choosing, using, interpreting and developing tests, it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000868951
• Artikelnr.: 67627484

Autorenporträt

A proud Cornishman, Colin Cooper obtained his BSc and PhD degrees in psychology from the University of Exeter in the UK. He worked on developing methods for selecting pilots and for assessing flexible thinking in senior officers before taking a lectureship at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He moved to Queen's University, Belfast, where he taught and researched individual differences, psychometrics and statistics for 20 years. He took early retirement in 2012 and emigrated to Ontario, Canada, where he is currently editor-in-chief of two journals and president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. He has published extensively in the areas of individual differences and psychometrics, and in his spare time enjoys classical music, writing, travel and walking.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychometrics
Chapter 2: Tests, Scales and Testing
Chapter 3: The meaning of measurement
Chapter 4: Administering and scoring Questionnaires and Tests
Chapter 5: Interpreting Scores
Chapter 6: Correlations
Chapter 7: Random errors of measurement
Chapter 8: Systematic Influences and Generalisability Theory
Chapter 9: Test Validity, Bias and Invariance
Chapter 10: Introduction to factor analysis
Chapter 11: Performing and interpreting factor analyses
Chapter 12: Alternative factor analysis designs
Chapter 13: Developments in Factor Analysis
Chapter 14: Network Analysis
Chapter 15: Item response theory
Chapter 16: Test and scale construction
Chapter 17: Problems with test scores
Chapter 18: Psychometrics in context
References
Index