PSY 3307 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Group Testing, Heredity, Educational Testing Service
12 May 2016
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Developing, evaluating, using, and summarizing psychological measures. Psychometrics as a unifying discipline in psychology. Psychometrics is important for nearly all aspects of psychology. The only way to establish a test"s quality is to objectively study it"s items, reliability, and validity. Be feasible to administer and score (feasible means reasonably inexpensive, not offensive to respondents, and acceptable to those who make decisions on it"s use) Process of assessing size, amount or degree of a characteristic. Procedure, instrument or measure that samples behaviour to measure some personal attribute. Representative sample of the characteristic in question. Test administered under the same conditions . Personality, depression, anxiety, math achievement, attitudes towards dogs, Measure what has already been learned in a specific academic area. Assess potential for learning or ability to perform in specific situations. Measure cumulative life experiences and determine what one can expect from a person. Also measure potential to learn, but at broader levels. Predict satisfaction in specific academic or job setting.
