Comprehending Test Manuals

<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> <p>Part A: Reliability</p><p>1. Test-Retest Reliability</p><p>Behavior Rating Profile</p><p>2. Interscorer Reliability</p><p>Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence </p><p>3. Internal Consistency and Test-Retest Reliability</p><p>Occupational Aptitude Survey and Interest Schedule</p><p>4. Internal Consistency Reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha)</p><p>The Sixteen Factor Personality Questionnaire</p><p>Part B: Validity</p><p>5. Concurrent Validity and Test-Retest Reliability</p><p>Reading and Arithmetic Indexes (12)</p><p>6. Concurrent Validity</p><p>Thurstone Test of Mental Alertness</p><p>7. Predictive Validity</p><p>Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children</p><p>8. Content Validity: I</p><p>Test of Written Language</p><p>9. Content Validity: II</p><p>Boehm Test of Basic Concepts</p><p>10. Construct Validity: I</p><p>Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test</p><p>11. Construct Validity: II</p><p>Gray Oral Reading Tests</p><p>12. Construct Validity: III</p><p>Beck Depression Inventory</p><p>Part C: Standardized Test Scores</p><p>13. Percentile Ranks</p><p>Test of Pragmatic Language</p><p>14. Stanines</p><p>Flanagan Aptitude Classification Test</p><p>15. IQ Scores</p><p>Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children</p><p>16. Derived Scores and the Normal Curve</p><p>Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test</p><p>17. Grade Equivalents</p><p>KeyMath</p><p>18. Age Equivalents</p><p>Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales</p><p>Part D: Issues in Interpreting Standardized Test Scores</p><p>19. Norm Group Composition: I</p><p>The Adaptive Behavior Evaluation Scale</p><p>20. Norm Group Composition: II</p><p>The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire</p><p>21. Standard Error of Measurement: I</p><p>Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test</p><p>22. Standard Error of Measurement: II</p><p>Behavior Dimensions Scale–School Version</p><p>23. Standard Error of Measurement and Alternate-Forms Reliability</p><p>Stanford Achievement Test Series</p><p>24. Significance of Intra-Ability Difference Scores</p><p>Gray Oral Reading Tests</p><p>Part E: Bias in Testing</p><p>25. Use of a Bias Review Panel </p><p>Personality Assessment Inventory</p><p>26. Pretesting Items to Reduce Bias</p><p>SRA Pictorial Reasoning Test</p><p>27. Procedures to Eliminate Bias</p><p>Stanford Achievement Test Series</p><p>Part F: Issues in Personality Measurement</p><p>28. Scales for Detecting Faking</p><p>Tennessee Self-Concept Scale</p><p>29. Experiment on Faking</p><p>Survey of Interpersonal Values</p><p>30. Social Desirability Scale</p><p>The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire</p><p>31. Item Omissions and Validity</p><p>Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory</p><p>32. Lie Scale</p><p>Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory</p><p>Part G: Item Analysis</p><p>33. Item Analysis: I</p><p>The Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation Scale–Home Version</p><p>34. Item Analysis: II</p><p>Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test</p><p>Part H: Other Issues in Testing</p><p>35. Equivalence of Editions</p><p>Self-Directed Search</p><p>36. Presenting Intelligence Test Items</p><p>Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale</p><p>37. Testing Conditions</p><p>Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory</p><p>38. Establishing Rapport During Test Administration</p><p>Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability</p><p>39. Responsibility for Test Security</p><p>Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery</p><p>Appendix A: Review of Basic Statistics</p>