Essentials of Psychological Testing

By S. Urbina. PsyPag Quarterly, 2005

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Series Preface. One: Introduction to Psychological Tests and Their Uses. Two: Essential Statistics for Testing. Three: Essentials of Test Score Interpretation. Four: Essentials of Reliability. Five: Essentials of Validity. Six: Essential Test Item Considerations. Seven: Essentials of Test Use. Appendix A: Commercially Available Tests. Appendix B: Addresses of Test Publishers and Distributors. Appendix C: Table of Areas and Ordinates of the Normal Curve. References. Index. Acknowledgments. About the Author.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics and Probability

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