Psychological Testing

This book is an introductory text to the field of psychological testing primarily suitable for undergraduate students in psychology, education, business, and related fields. This book will also be of interest to graduate students who have not had a prior exposure to psychological testing and to professionals such as lawyers who need to consult a useful source. Psychological Testing is clearly written, well-organized, comprehensive, and replete with illustrative materials. In addition to the basic topics, the text covers in detail topics that are often neglected by other texts such as cross-cultural testing, the issue of faking tests, the impact of computers and the use of tests to assess positive behaviors such as creativity.

• Well-written in clear and understandable language • Comprehensive but not encyclopaedic - covers all basic topics • Hundreds of changes were made to include references and writings published since the first edition

Preface; Part I. Basic Issues: 1. The nature of tests; 2. Test construction, administration, and Interpretation; 3. Reliability and validity; Part II. Dimensions of Testing: 4. Personality; 5. Cognition; 6. Attitudes, values, and interests; 7. Psychopathology; 8. Normal positive functioning; Part III. Applications of Testing: 9. Special children; 10. Older persons; 11. Testing in a cross-cultural context; 12. Disability and rehabilitation; Part IV. The Settings: 13. Testing in the schools; 14. Occupational settings; 15. Clinical and forensic settings; Part V. Challenges to Testing: 16. The issue of faking; 17. The role of computers; 18. Testing behavior and environments; 19. The history of psychological testing; Appendix; Table to translate difficulty level of a test item into a z score; References; Test index; Index of acronyms; Subject index.