Psychological testing and measurement Books

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué a veces te sientes agotado sin razón, triste sin causa, o motivado de golpe sin que haya pasado nada externo? ¿Por qué en ciertos momentos parece que puedes con todo y en otros te cuesta hasta levantarte de la cama?...

Have you ever wondered why you sometimes feel exhausted for no reason, sad for no reason, or suddenly motivated without anything external happening? Why do you feel like you can handle anything at certain times, and at other times you struggle to even...

Originally published in 1926, the first part of this book attempted to formulate a theory of ability in the light of recent experimental results of the time. It discusses the nature of intelligence and the problem of special abilities, and includes a...

This book is essential for anyone interested in learning about the therapeutic potential of orthodox and state-of-the-art supports for autistics.

Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment is a user-friendly overview of the most important principles and concepts of clinical assessment. It provides readers with a science-based framework for interpreting assessment research and making good...

Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment provides detailed descriptions of child maltreatment assessment and key strategies for culturally informed risk assessment in families.The book presents a new model for evaluating families that includes...

This book is a comprehensive guide to Therapeutic Assessment (TA) with adults, showing how to collaboratively engage clients in psychological testing to help them achieve major and long-lasting change.This guide clearly lays out each step of TA with...

Adaptives Testen ist ein aktueller, psychometrisch anspruchsvoller Ansatz zur Messung psychischer Merkmale. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit Effekten des adaptiven Testens auf die diskriminante Validität von Testwerten am Beispiel des Frankfurter Adaptiven...

Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment brings together two interrelated realms: psychological assessment with gender and sexuality. This handbook aids in expanding the psychological assessors' knowledge and skill when considering...

Clinicians are always in need of enticing techniques to engage clients on a daily basis, especially those who are nonverbal or initially opposed to feedback. Using Drawings in Clinical Practice provides a rich variety of drawing directives to enhance the...

Psychological tests provide reliable and objective standards by which individuals can be evaluated in education and employment. Therefore accurate judgements must depend on the reliability and quality of the tests themselves. Originally published in...

This second edition continues to present the following special features of its highly successful predecessor: * an analysis of the major partitionings of the MMPI into special scales in terms of their clinical usefulness, resulting in the selection of...

Assessing Adolescent Psychopathology: MMPI-A / MMPI-A-RF, Fourth Edition provides updated recommendations for researchers and clinicians concerning the MMPI-A, the most widely used objective personality test with adolescents, and also introduces the...

This collection of articles by Constance T. Fischer represents many of her major contributions to Collaborative Therapeutic Assessment. Fischer's work on the conceptual foundations and practices for individualized/ collaborative psychological assessment...

The Otis Group Intelligence Scale: Manual of Directions for Primary and Advanced Examinations, 1920 is a book written by Arthur Sinton Otis. The book provides a comprehensive guide to administering and scoring the Otis Group Intelligence Scale, which was...

Die GBP e.V. präsentiert hiermit die Ergebnisse einer mehrjährigen naturalistischen Studie, bei der folgende Fragebögen zu drei Zeitpunkten (AN, EN, KAT) eingesetzt wurden: BDI II, SCL-90-R, DKB-43. Der GBP e.V. ging es darum, die in der ambulanten...

Chapter 1: Introduction to Benjamin Wright and his Contributions to Measurement Science.- Chapter 2: Cogitations on invariant measurement.-Chapter 3: Isn't Science Wonderful?.-Chapter 4: Ben Wright: A Multi-Facet Analysis.-Chapter 5: Reflections on...

This book provides a selection of modern and sophisticated methodologies for the analysis of large and complex univariate and multivariate categorical data. It gives an overview of a substantive and broad collection of topics in the analysis of...

This authoritative volume presents a detailed analysis of the replication crisis and the use of questionable research practices (QRPs) in psychology, as well as recommended practices for combatting these problems. Ultimately, the book aims to...

This book constitutes a collection of articles that were written for, and recently published as, special sections in three consecutive issues of the Journal of Personality Assessment.Part I provides lucid commentaries on the current status of and future...

Originally published in 1945, this title was intended mainly for use by teachers wishing to test children from ages 2-8 in order to establish their intelligence. Based on feedback to the author, this revised edition also includes tests for children up to...

This volume comprises papers dedicated to data science and the extraction of knowledge from many types of data: structural, quantitative, or statistical approaches for the analysis of data; advances in classification, clustering and pattern recognition...

Thisbook provides first time insight into whether emotions impactperformance of an online ability test. This question is gaining inrelevance as online assessment is used increasingly in personnelselection and since it has been shown that emotions impact...

This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the scientific projects of the priority program "Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and...

This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessments, tests and international surveys has become a growing global trend. While the construction...

This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills. The major element of this new volume...

The research articles in this volume cover timely quantitative psychology topics, including new methods in item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnostic modeling, and psychological scaling. Topics within general...

This book combines an overview of validity theory, trends in validation practices and a review of standards and guidelines in several international jurisdictions with research synthesis of the validity evidence in different research areas. An overview of...

This volume presents contributions on handling data in which the postulate of independence in the data matrix is violated. When this postulate is violated and when the methods assuming independence are still applied, the estimated parameters are likely...

Twenty Interviews with Psychometric Society Presidents tells the stories of the people who are the driving forces of psychometric research, teaching and practice. In semi-structured interviews, twenty presidents of the Psychometric Society share how they...

This unique collection of chapters from world experts on person-centered outcome (PCO) measures addresses the following critical questions: Can individual experiences be represented in measurements that do not reduce unique differences to meaningless...

This proceedings volume highlights the latest research and developments in psychometrics and statistics. It represents selected and peer reviewed presentations given at the 84th Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), organized...

2018 Reprint of 1999 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition.  Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during...

The 77th Annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) brought together quantitative researchers who focus on methods relevant to psychology. The conference included workshops, invited talks by well-known scholars, and presentations of...

Over the past two decades, the assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) has evolved into a sophisticated balance of science and clinical judgement essential for arriving at reliable and valid diagnostic...

Children's display of unacceptable behavior in the school setting, school violence, academic underachievement, and school failure represent a cluster of problems that touches all aspects of society. Children with learning and...

​​ ​Cluster analysis is a multivariate classification technique that allows for identification of homogenous subgroups within diverse samples based on shared characteristics. In recent years, cluster analysis has been increasingly applied to...

Theories of Data Analysis and Statistical Inference.- The Current Design and Analysis.- Psychometric and Survey Models.- Technical Reports - Data Analyses and Simulation Studies.- 1986 NAEP Math Survey.- Analysis of All 1986Math Iems.- 2005 NAEP Math...

This book proposes a revolutionary new theory of construct measurement - called C-OAR-SE - for the social sciences. The acronym is derived from the following key elements: construct definition; object representation; attribute classification; rater...

No other book reviews clinical neuropsychological assessment from an empirical psychometric perspective. In this completely revised and updated 2nd edition, the concepts and methods of psychometric neuropsychology are...

Intended to help improve measurement and data collection methods in the behavioral, social, and medical sciences, this book demonstrates an expanded and accessible use of Generalizability Theory (G theory). G theory conceptually models the way in which...

Many people over forty are restlessly fuming, knowing they are sitting on marketable skills, ideas, and experience yet those attributes are not being profitably applied. Often they feel stuck by circumstances,fear, unproductive mindsets, and...

Attention to fairness, validity, and accessibility in assessments has reached a new level of importance as testing expands to include more diverse populations, more complex purposes, and more sophisticated technologies. This book addresses the need to...

This new edition provides a step-by-step guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable ("latent") variables. Although the focus is on simple R code, the book provides...

Drawing on discursive psychology, this book traces the historical development of psychiatric constructions of 'normal' and 'abnormal' gender expression and contextualises the recent reconstruction of gender through the DSM-5 criteria for gender dysphoria...

This is a highly accessible, comprehensive introduction to item response theory (IRT) models and their use in various aspects of assessment/testing. The book employs a mixture of graphics and simulated data sets to ease the reader into the material and...