Comprehending Test Manuals : A Guide and Workbook

- 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