PSY 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Formative Assessment, Operationalization, Interquartile Range
15 Sep 2017
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Field of psychology that specializes in mental testing (apa: personality, perception. Scientific study of the quality of psychological measures (furr; bacharach: procedures for psychological measurement (guilford, covers the theory and techniques involved in measuring (evaluating) psychological attributes knowledge, aptitudes, behaviours and specific traits of an individual. Three approaches: 1)classical test theory (ctt) - simple, hypotheses that an obtained score on an evaluation is a composite of a true score plus error. Based on this premise a number of techniques have been developed that allow test developers and users t evaluate the reliability and validity of the measurement tools that are being employed. Glossary: measure, an instrument used to evaluate, consists in expressing the details of the variables by numbers, evaluation, designates all the procedures aimed at establishing an assessment of the competencies knowledge, weaknesses, difficulties. Instruments (tools) can be of various formats: an instrument is accepted if it exhibits three characteristics.
