1st Edition

Comprehending Test Manuals A Guide and Workbook

By Ann Silverlake Copyright 1999
    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    122 Pages
    by Routledge

    • 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