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PSY 461 Psychological Testing and Test Construction

400 levelSocial Sciences11 topics

PSY 461 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature and types of psychological tests
  2. History of psychological testing
  3. Test construction procedures
  4. Item writing and item analysis
  5. Test standardization
  6. Norms and norming
  7. Reliability of tests
  8. Validity of tests
  9. Intelligence and aptitude testing
  10. Personality and projective tests
  11. Ethical issues in psychological testing

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Nature and types of psychological tests

The topic focuses on what psychological tests are, the basic features that make them scientific tools, and the major ways they are classified. For exams, you must be able to define a psychological test clearly, distinguish it from informal judgement, and identify different test types by purpose, administration, content, and scoring format.

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