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>