Comprehending Test Manuals: A Guide & Workbook

By Ann C. Silverlake

Book Overview

- Your students will get valuable practice in interpreting actual excerpts from published test manuals.

- 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.

- Background notes on each exercise describe the purpose of the test from which the excerpt was drawn.

- Students answer questions that require them to locate and interpret important points in the excerpt.

- The excerpts are largely unabridged so that students practice interpreting material as it is actually presented by test makers.

- The skills they learn with this book can be easily transferred to other test manuals they may be using in the future.

- 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.

- All major topics are covered, including:

- validity

- reliability

- standard error of measurement

- norm group composition

- derived scores

- scales to detect faking

- item analysis

- cultural bias

- The excerpts are drawn from tests such as:

- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

- 16PF

- Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale

- MMPI

- Beck Depression Inventory

- Stanford Achievement Test Series

- KeyMath

- and many others

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884585124
• ISBN13: 9781884585128
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.8"