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>