Comprehending Test Manuals

Comprehending Test Manuals

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<P>• Your students will get valuable practice in interpreting actual excerpts from published test manuals.</P> <P>• Each of the 39 exercises begins with a guideline that helps students review the measurement concepts they will need in order to complete the exercise.</P> <P>• Background notes on each exercise describe the purpose of the test from which the excerpt was drawn.</P> <P>• Students answer questions that require them to locate and interpret important points in the excerpt.</P> <P>• The excerpts are largely unabridged so that students practice interpreting material as it is actually presented by test makers.</P> <P>• The skills they learn with this book can be easily transferred to other test manuals they may be using in the future.</P> <P>• Students have an ethical responsibility to be thoroughly familiar with the technical characteristics of the tests they will use. This book prepares them for this responsibility.</P> <P>• All major topics are covered, including: </P> <P>· validity</P> <P>· reliability</P> <P>· standard error of measurement</P> <P>· norm group composition</P> <P>· derived scores </P> <P>· scales to detect faking </P> <P>· item analysis</P> <P>· cultural bias</P> <P>• The excerpts are drawn from tests such as:</P> <P>· Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children</P> <P>· Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test</P> <P>· 16PF</P> <P>· Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale</P> <P>· MMPI</P> <P>· Beck Depression Inventory</P> <P>· Stanford Achievement Test Series</P> <P>· KeyMath</P> <P>· and many others!</P>