Psychological Testing : An Introduction

Preface Part I. Basic Issues: 1. The nature of tests 2. Test construction, administration, and Interpretation 3. Reliability and validity Part II. Dimensions of Testing: 4. Personality 5. Cognition 6. Attitudes, values, and interests 7. Psychopathology 8. Normal positive functioning Part III. Applications of Testing 9. Special children 10. Older persons 11. Testing in a cross-cultural context 12. Disability and rehabilitation Part IV. The Settings: 13. Testing in the schools 14. Occupational settings 15. Clinical and forensic settings Part V. Challenges to Testing: 16. The issue of faking 17. The role of computers 18. Testing behavior and environments 19. The history of psychological testing Appendix Table to translate difficulty level of a test item into a z score References Test index Index of acronyms Subject index.