Psychology 2080A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Psychology Testing Textbook, 7th edition
13 Dec 2011
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Standartized tests tend to disadvantage female and ethic minorities. Lsat and gre are the most difficult modern psychological tests. gre has an international significance. 18 countries ranked above the united states in the % of 15 years old in math and literacy. How accurate are they? these questions are from the every u. s. citizen and international community. To answer the questions about the test, understand reliability, validity, item analysis and test construction. Test is a measurement device or techinique used to quantify behavior or aid in the undertsanding and prediction of behavior. Ex. spelling test measures how well smone spells or the extent to which smone has learned to spell a specific list of words. test measures only a sample of behavior , error is always associating w a sampling process. Test scores are not perfect meausrement of behavior or characterictic but it does add significance to the predictio0n process.
