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31 gru 2015 · Psychometrics is a scientific discipline concerned with the construction of measurement models for psychological data. In these models, a theoretical construct (e.g., intelligence) is...
Give an account of the different types of scale and items available for psycholog-ical assessment and discuss their advantages and limitations. Classical Item Analysis, Item Response Theory and Rasch modelling. Understand scientific thinking about the nature of attitudes and their key characteristics.
Common purposes for psychological testing include: screening for the presence or absence of common mental health conditions; making a formal diagnosis of a mental health condition; assessment of changes in symptom severity; and monitoring client outcomes across the course of therapy.
This page contains information on a range of measures (psychometric tests) freely available to psychology students, and the formats in which they are available. Please note this is a guide only and is not intended to be a definitive list.
This guide will provide an overview of the most used as well as the most useful psychological constructs in large scale surveys and will discuss the implications and difficulties related to psychological scales namely their length, validity, and reliability, the use of the same questionnaires across different data collection modes, as well as th...
Psychometrics is the “centerpiece” of empirical psychological research and practice. They’re called because most of what we care about as psychologists are not physical measurements, such as height, weight, pressure & velocity...
The use of tools to measure psychological constructs is known as psychometrics. This chapter will outline the use of psychometric measures within consumer psychology and related fields – both in academic and practice settings – and discuss the theory underlying psychological measurement, before exploring the process by which these measures ...
