Psychological testing and measurement

This book focuses on quantitative survey methodology, data collection and cleaning methods.

A Single Cohesive Framework of Tools and Procedures for Psychometrics and AssessmentBayesian Psychometric Modeling presents a unified Bayesian approach across traditionally separate families of psychometric models.

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.

Statistics for Psychology is an interactive, highly visual, and accessible guide to the statistical practices you will encounter as a psychology student.

This book provides a practical but scientifically grounded step-by-step approach to the adaptation of tests in linguistic and cultural contexts.

Before the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, U.

"e;Mpofu and Oakland have given us a volume of exceptional clarity, depth, and breadth, one whose utility extends well beyond rehabilitation psychology.

The Routledge International Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation (AEE) is a definitive guide at the intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and education.

This book introduces multidimensional scaling (MDS) and unfolding as data analysis techniques for applied researchers.

Measurement-based assessment has dominated our educational systems at the expense of the learning and the well-being of students and teachers.

This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades.

Stress beeinflusst das Wohlbefinden und die Gesundheit.

This important and useful book offers a clear and comprehensive foundation for research methods in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology.

The purpose of this book is to evaluate a new approach to the analysis and reporting of the large-scale surveys for the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out for the National Center for Education Statistics.

The volume represents presentations given at the 87th annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Bologna, Italy at July 11-15, 2022.

Schriftliche Prüfungen stellen einen wesentlichen Teil der Ausbildung von Studierenden dar.

This is a second edition of the highly popular volume used by clinicians and students in the assessment and intervention of aphasia.

The step-by-step guide to administering, scoring, and interpreting the WJ IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities Essentials of WJ IV Cognitive Abilities Assessment provides expert, practical advice on how to administer, score, and interpret the WJ IV COG .

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are based partially in sound scientific rationale and partially in unfounded lore.

This book assembles research findings accumulated over the span of half a century from the Jefferson Longitudinal Study (JLS).

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to accurately and effectively implement Response to Intervention (RTI) programs As adoption of the RTI model grows, professionals such as educational diagnosticians, school psychologists, general and special education teachers, and school administrators are eager to find resources that describe the theory behind it and provide useful guidelines for its effective implementation.

Written expressly for teachers, this book is jam-packed with tools and strategies for integrating response to intervention (RTI) into everyday instruction in grades K-5.

This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research.

The presentation of mental illness at work has different implications and consequences depending on the specific nature of the job, work context, regulatory framework and risks for the employee, organisation and society.

Shows how foundational mathematical ideas can be employed in the understanding of a variety of psychological phenomena.

Essentials of WPPSI -IV Assessment Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to expertly administer, score, and interpret the WPPSI -IV Anyone who assesses young children is familiar with the challenges of obtaining accurate and adequate test data.

This important and useful book offers a clear and comprehensive foundation for research methods in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology.

This book is the third in a trilogy of books on introductory psychology.

This book provides methods and applications of latent class analysis, and the following topics are taken up in the focus of discussion: basic latent structure models in a framework of generalized linear models, exploratory latent class analysis, latent class analysis with ordered latent classes, a latent class model approach for analyzing learning structures, the latent Markov analysis for longitudinal data, and path analysis with latent class models.

Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments.

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.

This authoritative resource, now thoroughly revised for DSM-5, has set the standard for the comprehensive assessment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to accurately and effectively implement Response to Intervention (RTI) programs As adoption of the RTI model grows, professionals such as educational diagnosticians, school psychologists, general and special education teachers, and school administrators are eager to find resources that describe the theory behind it and provide useful guidelines for its effective implementation.

There are several tests used in clinical practice and research worldwide that have been devised to assess the functions subsumed by the frontal lobes of the brain.

The Four Domains of Mental Illness presents an authentic and valid alternative to the DSM-5, which author Rene J.

This is the first technical book that considers tests as public tools and examines how to engineer and process test data, extract the structure within the data to be visualized, and thereby make test results useful for students, teachers, and the society.

This empirical and theoretical book should be of interest to anyone who dares to consider the contentious topic of measuring and justifying aesthetic value in music, as well as the issue of how experts compare to nonexperts in terms of aesthetic fluency,

Through this book's unique model comparison approach, students and researchers are introduced to a set of fundamental principles for analyzing data.

This book aims to address the challenges of defining measurement in social sciences, presenting a conceptualization of the practice of measurement from the perspective of the pragmatic tradition in philosophy.

This book illustrates the method of multiple hypotheses with detailed examples and describes the limitations facing all methods (including the method of multiple hypotheses) as the means for constructing knowledge about nature.

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen leichten Einstieg und verständlichen Gesamtüberblick über die quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden der Psychologie und angrenzender Sozialwissenschaften: alle wichtigen Verfahren, ihre Logik und Einsatzgebiete, Stärken und Schwachpunkte und auch neuere Entwicklungen.

Contributors to the volume represent an international "e;who's who"e; of research scientists from the fields of psychology and measurement.

Accelerated Ecological Psychotherapy: ETT Applications for Sleep Disorders, Pain, and Addiction describes a number of therapeutic breakthroughs for a diverse array of conditions.

First published in 1993.

An Introduction to the Rasch Model with Examples in R offers a clear, comprehensive introduction to the Rasch model along with practical examples in the free, open-source software R.

Learn which dark side of personality assessment to use and when- Introduces different assessment tools- Highlights the nuances between tests- Presents the relevant psychometric properties- Explores findings about human natureMore about the bookWe encounter people who possess undesirable dark sides of personality at low levels in our day to day lives, whether it is the boss who acts like a jerk, a cheating partner, or a friend who rubs everyone up the wrong way.

Assessment in counseling-like its biblical counterpart, discernment-is an ongoing and dynamic routine to encourage movement in a productive direction toward what is truly best.