Modern psychometrics: the science of psychological assessment/
John Rust
- 3rd.ed.
- London: Routledge, 2009.
- 258 p.
1 The development of psychometrics Psychometrics today The history of psychometrics Issues in intelligence testing The ethics of IQ testing Summary 2 The objectives of testing and assessment Psychometrics and sociobiology Is psychometrics a science? What does psychometrics measure? The theory of true scores The true psychometrics: trait or function? Summary 3 The process of test- construction Knowledge-based end person-based questionnaires Objective and open-ended tests Norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing Obtaining test scores by summing item scores The correction for guessing in objective knowledge-based tests Summary 4 Item analysis Classical item analysis statistics for knowledge-based tests Classical item analysis for person-based tests item analysis in criterion-referenced testing Psychological traits, true scores and internal test structure Classical item analysis for more complex situations Summary 5 Characteristics of tests Reliability Validity Standardisation Normalisation Summary 6 Bias in testing and assessment Bias and fairness Forms of bias Item bias Intrinsic test bias Extrinsic test bias Summary 7 Factor analysis The correlation coefficient The application of factor analysis to test construction Criticisms of the classical factor analytic approach Special uses of factor analysis in test construction Summary 8 Using psychometrics in educational settings Questioning the examination system Measuring ability in schoolchildren Measuring achievement in schoolchildren Ability-achievement discrepancy analysis Summary 9 Personality theory and clinical assessment Definitions of personality Genetic vs. environmental influences on personality Theories of personality Types vs. traits Approaches to personality assessment Sources and management of sabotage Informal methods of personality assessment State vs. trait measures Ipsative scaling Spurious validity and the Barnum effect Assessment in clinical psychology Summary 10 Psychometric assessment of personality in occupational settings The Big Five model Orpheus: a work-based personality questionnaire that assesses the Big Five The Orpheus scales The psychometric characteristics of Orpheus Using Orpheus Summary 11 Ethical test use and integrity testing Administrative procedures for psychometric testing Integrity testing Theories of integrity Giotto; a psychometric test of integrity Summary 12 Psychometrics in the information technology age Computerisation Artificial intelligence Summary 13 Constructing your own questionnaire The purpose of the questionnaire Making a blueprint Writing items Designing the questionnaire Piloting the questionnaire Item analysis Reliability Validity Standardisation