Topics

  • Educational testing
  • Can Coaching Truly Boost SAT Scores?
    There Are Better Ways to Assess Students than with High Stakes Standardized Tests

  • The history of psychological testing
  • A History of Psychological Testing
    A Brief History of Psychological Testing
    Psychologists Go to War
    Terman and Yerkes: Mental Testing in the USA 3 [HPsy 8C:3]
    WW II Aviation Psychological Program report
    History of Psychological Testing (Prezi)
    Psychological Assessment- Lesson 2 – History of Psychological Testing (student slides / video)
    Flash cards from another Testing and Measurement course

  • Statistical aspects
  • Standard Error of Measurement

  • Validity
  • Reliability and Validity
    Why validity is important to psychological tests
    Validity: A video going over the different types of validity

  • Test construction
  • Test Construction
    Test development and comparing different tests
    Flash Cards on Test Construction

  • Item response theory
  • Item Response Theory
    Introduction to Item Response Theory
    Item Response Theory – Wikipedia
    What role does Item Response Theory play in assessment?
    Yardstick Ask the Expert – Classical Test Theory vs. IRT
    Item Response Theory
    Introduction to Item Response Theory
    A Conceptual Introduction to Item Response Theory: Part 1. The Logic of IRT Scoring
    A Conceptual Introduction to Item Response Theory: Part 2. IRT Is a Probability Model
    A Conceptual Introduction to Item Response Theory: Part 3. Plotting Along
    A Conceptual Introduction to Item Response Theory: Part 4. Understanding Item Parameters
    IRT Scoring in Surpass
    Applications of Item Response Theory Models in Other Contexts and Public Release and Transparency
    R – Item Response Theory Example
    SAS – Item Response Theory

  • Factor analysis
  • Factor Analysis
    Factor analysis: Easy Definition

  • Intelligence testing
  • History of Intelligence Testing
    Theories of intelligence | Processing the Environment | MCAT | Khan Academy
    Controversy of Intelligence: Crash Course Psychology #23
    Adam Ruins Everything – Why IQ Tests Are Bunk | truTV
    Intelligence & Testing terms and concepts from Myers for AP 2e Unit XI (and accompanying class notes)
    The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (Prezi)
    The WAIS IV (Prezi)
    The WAIS IV (another Prezi)
    Introducing the WAIS–IV
    WISC V ad video
    WISC V on the iPad ad video
    WPPSI IV ad video
    Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents’ | James Flynn
    A Practical System for Identifying Gifted and Talented Students
    Online IQ tests: are they valid?
    Brains Vs. Bias: Crash Course Psychology #24
    Psychologists have developed a new 10-minute “intelligence” test
    Validation of a matrix reasoning task for mobile devices
    Stanford-Binet & WAIS IQ Differences and Their Implications for Adults with Intellectual Disability (aka Mental Retardation)
    Your IQ May Be Different In Canada Than In The U.S.
    IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds

  • Test Bias and Differential Item Functioning
  • Exploring the Various Interpretations of “Test Bias”
    Ability Testing: Uses, Controversies, and Consequences

  • Special Populations
  • Draw-a-Person test
    Florence Laura Goodenough Inventor of the Draw a Man IQ Test
    The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)
    Leiter-3 Assessment Introduction- Leiter International Performance Scale- Third Edition

  • Personality
  • The Major Theories of Personality
    Behind Personality Tests
    How does the Rorschach inkblot test work? – Damion Searls
    Rorschach & Freudians: Crash Course Psychology #21
    Rorschach test
    Harrower-Erickson Multiple Choice Rorschach Test
    Thematic Apperception Test
    A TAT simulation
    Psychology by the numbers: A brief history of personality tests
    Adam Ruins Everything – Why the Myers-Briggs Test is Total B.S. | truTV
    Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
    ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types
    Measuring Personality: Crash Course Psychology #22
    PSYC 368_Personality_FiveFactor_Part 1
    PSYC 368_Ch 14_Personality Testing_MMPI-2_Part 2
    Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
    The California Psychological Inventory (CPI)
    Free personality test – NERIS Type Explorer®
    Personality Types
    The Big 5
    Big Five Personality Tests
    Big 5 Personality Dimensions and Job Performance
    Persons, Places, and Personality: Career Assessment Using the Revised NEO Personality Inventory
    Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development

  • Personnel selection
  • What is a Cognitive Ability Test? – Wonderlic
    O*Net OnLine
    Wikipedia: O*Net
    Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Testing Types
    What Is a Management Assessment Center?
    Succeeding in Test and Assessment Centers
    Are you smarter than an NFL Draft prospect?
    Here are the Wonderlic scores for 12 NFL Draft QBs
    The Strong Interest Inventory® Test

  • Testing in context
  • Testing, the Chinese Way
    The AIG Identification Process
    CogAT and other tests
    Psychological Testing of American Minorities: Issues and Consequences, by Ronald J. Samuda
    Cheat. Bribe. Lie. Here’s how the college admissions scam allegedly worked
    Despite warnings, College Board redesigned SAT in way that may hurt neediest students
    National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
    What standardized tests look like in 10 places around the world

  • The use of virtual reality (VR) in assessment
  • On the Therapist’s Couch, a Jolt of Virtual Reality
    Analysis of Assets for Virtual Reality Applications in Neuropsychology
    Real Assessment in a Virtual World
    Virtual Reality Lateralized Attention Test (VRLAT)

  • Games and assessment
  • The Witness – A Great Game That You Shouldn’t Play (long; first 5 minutes covers most of it)
    A game-based assessment under development at CRESST; it asks for a User ID but that can be anything
    Pymetrics – a company that uses game-like assessments for employment selection

  • Others …
  • Mastermind Behind BuzzFeed’s Quizzes …
    Open Source Psychometrics Project
    Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love