HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Personality Test, Percentile, Inductive Reasoning
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Testing is a big business: (e. g. testing in schools and the workplace) It has been useful to many people and organizations. On the line: jobs: scholarships, degrees, careers, self-concepts, etc. A standardized measure of a sample of behavior. Use scales (no right or wrong answers) motives interests values attitudes. Standardization: uniform: all face the same test-taking task. Norms: provide information about where a score ranks in relation to others scores on that test, helps understand what a test score means. Indicates the percentage of people who score at or below a person"s score. Standardized group: usually a large group, need to know the demographics. Reliability: a measure of consistency, test-retest reliability, split-half reliability. Validity: does the test measure what it is supposed to measure, does it do what it is supposed to do, may be valid for one purpose but not another (predict school performance vs. employment performance.
