Modern psychometrics: the science of psychological assessment/ (Record no. 171621)
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| fixed length control field | 03182nam a2200157Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780415442169 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 150.287 |
| Item number | RUS/M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rust, John |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Modern psychometrics: the science of psychological assessment/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | John Rust |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 3rd.ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 258 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1 The development of psychometrics<br/>Psychometrics today<br/>The history of psychometrics<br/>Issues in intelligence testing<br/>The ethics of IQ testing<br/>Summary<br/>2 The objectives of testing and assessment<br/>Psychometrics and sociobiology<br/>Is psychometrics a science?<br/>What does psychometrics measure?<br/>The theory of true scores<br/>The true psychometrics: trait or function?<br/>Summary<br/>3 The process of test- construction<br/>Knowledge-based end person-based questionnaires<br/>Objective and open-ended tests<br/>Norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing<br/>Obtaining test scores by summing item scores<br/>The correction for guessing in objective<br/>knowledge-based tests<br/>Summary<br/>4 Item analysis<br/>Classical item analysis statistics for knowledge-based<br/>tests<br/>Classical item analysis for person-based tests<br/>item analysis in criterion-referenced testing<br/>Psychological traits, true scores and internal test<br/>structure<br/>Classical item analysis for more complex situations<br/>Summary<br/>5 Characteristics of tests<br/>Reliability<br/>Validity<br/>Standardisation<br/>Normalisation<br/>Summary<br/>6 Bias in testing and assessment<br/>Bias and fairness<br/>Forms of bias<br/>Item bias<br/>Intrinsic test bias<br/>Extrinsic test bias<br/>Summary<br/>7 Factor analysis<br/>The correlation coefficient<br/>The application of factor analysis to test construction<br/>Criticisms of the classical factor analytic approach<br/>Special uses of factor analysis in test construction<br/>Summary<br/>8 Using psychometrics in educational settings<br/>Questioning the examination system<br/>Measuring ability in schoolchildren<br/>Measuring achievement in schoolchildren<br/>Ability-achievement discrepancy analysis<br/>Summary<br/>9 Personality theory and clinical assessment<br/>Definitions of personality<br/>Genetic vs. environmental influences on personality<br/>Theories of personality<br/>Types vs. traits<br/>Approaches to personality assessment<br/>Sources and management of sabotage<br/>Informal methods of personality assessment<br/>State vs. trait measures<br/>Ipsative scaling<br/>Spurious validity and the Barnum effect<br/>Assessment in clinical psychology<br/>Summary<br/>10 Psychometric assessment of personality in<br/>occupational settings<br/>The Big Five model<br/>Orpheus: a work-based personality questionnaire that<br/>assesses the Big Five<br/>The Orpheus scales<br/>The psychometric characteristics of Orpheus<br/>Using Orpheus<br/>Summary<br/>11 Ethical test use and integrity testing<br/>Administrative procedures for psychometric testing<br/>Integrity testing<br/>Theories of integrity<br/>Giotto; a psychometric test of integrity<br/>Summary<br/>12 Psychometrics in the information<br/>technology age<br/>Computerisation<br/>Artificial intelligence<br/>Summary<br/>13 Constructing your own questionnaire<br/>The purpose of the questionnaire<br/>Making a blueprint<br/>Writing items<br/>Designing the questionnaire<br/>Piloting the questionnaire<br/>Item analysis<br/>Reliability<br/>Validity<br/>Standardisation |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Psychometrics |
| General subdivision | Psychological Tests |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 150.287 RUS/M | P26601 | 13/07/2018 | 13/07/2018 | General Books |