• Your students will get valuable practice in interpreting actual excerpts from published test manuals.
• Each of the 39 exercises begins with a guideline that helps students review the measurement concepts they will need in order to complete the exercise.
• Background notes on each exercise describe the purpose of the test from which the excerpt was drawn.
• Students answer questions that require them to locate and interpret important points in the excerpt.
• The excerpts are largely unabridged so that students practice interpreting material as it is actually presented by test makers.
• The skills they learn with this book can be easily transferred to other test manuals they may be using in the future.
• Students have an ethical responsibility to be thoroughly familiar with the technical characteristics of the tests they will use. This book prepares them for this responsibility.
• All major topics are covered, including:
· validity
· reliability
· standard error of measurement
· norm group composition
· derived scores
· scales to detect faking
· item analysis
· cultural bias
• The excerpts are drawn from tests such as:
· Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
· Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
· 16PF
· Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale
· MMPI
· Beck Depression Inventory
· Stanford Achievement Test Series
· KeyMath
· and many others!
Part A: Reliability
1. Test-Retest Reliability
Behavior Rating Profile
2. Interscorer Reliability
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
3. Internal Consistency and Test-Retest Reliability
Occupational Aptitude Survey and Interest Schedule
4. Internal Consistency Reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha)
The Sixteen Factor Personality Questionnaire
Part B: Validity
5. Concurrent Validity and Test-Retest Reliability
Reading and Arithmetic Indexes (12)
6. Concurrent Validity
Thurstone Test of Mental Alertness
7. Predictive Validity
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
8. Content Validity: I
Test of Written Language
9. Content Validity: II
Boehm Test of Basic Concepts
10. Construct Validity: I
Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test
11. Construct Validity: II
Gray Oral Reading Tests
12. Construct Validity: III
Beck Depression Inventory
Part C: Standardized Test Scores
13. Percentile Ranks
Test of Pragmatic Language
14. Stanines
Flanagan Aptitude Classification Test
15. IQ Scores
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
16. Derived Scores and the Normal Curve
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
17. Grade Equivalents
KeyMath
18. Age Equivalents
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
Part D: Issues in Interpreting Standardized Test Scores
19. Norm Group Composition: I
The Adaptive Behavior Evaluation Scale
20. Norm Group Composition: II
The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
21. Standard Error of Measurement: I
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
22. Standard Error of Measurement: II
Behavior Dimensions Scale–School Version
23. Standard Error of Measurement and Alternate-Forms Reliability
Stanford Achievement Test Series
24. Significance of Intra-Ability Difference Scores
Gray Oral Reading Tests
Part E: Bias in Testing
25. Use of a Bias Review Panel
Personality Assessment Inventory
26. Pretesting Items to Reduce Bias
SRA Pictorial Reasoning Test
27. Procedures to Eliminate Bias
Stanford Achievement Test Series
Part F: Issues in Personality Measurement
28. Scales for Detecting Faking
Tennessee Self-Concept Scale
29. Experiment on Faking
Survey of Interpersonal Values
30. Social Desirability Scale
The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
31. Item Omissions and Validity
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
32. Lie Scale
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Part G: Item Analysis
33. Item Analysis: I
The Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scale–Home Version
34. Item Analysis: II
Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test
Part H: Other Issues in Testing
35. Equivalence of Editions
Self-Directed Search
36. Presenting Intelligence Test Items
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
37. Testing Conditions
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
38. Establishing Rapport During Test Administration
Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability
39. Responsibility for Test Security
Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery
Appendix A: Review of Basic Statistics
Biography
Ann Silverlake