Topics

  • The history of psychological testing
  • Uses of test results
  • Ethical issues in testing
  • Norms, and the reliability and validity of tests
  • Item analysis, test bias, item response theory, and test construction
  • Individual and group tests of intellectual functioning
  • Personality measurement
  • Testing in educational, occupational, and clinical settings

    • This course is appropriate for juniors, seniors, and graduate students in psychology, industrial relations, or education. Students must have completed Psych 210 or its equivalent. Quizzes and a final examination will be administered; there is also a test-construction project.