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Course Syllabus For The Course Psychological Testing

This 3 credit hour course equips students with the concepts, history, concerns and legal issues related to psychological testing. The course covers understanding the nature and functions of standardized tests, developing and interpreting psychological tests, and measuring intelligence, personality, attitude and interest. Key topics include the definition of psychological attributes; reliability and validity of tests; factors affecting testing; and ethical issues. Assessment includes assignments, quizzes, exams, attendance and participation.

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Course Syllabus For The Course Psychological Testing

This 3 credit hour course equips students with the concepts, history, concerns and legal issues related to psychological testing. The course covers understanding the nature and functions of standardized tests, developing and interpreting psychological tests, and measuring intelligence, personality, attitude and interest. Key topics include the definition of psychological attributes; reliability and validity of tests; factors affecting testing; and ethical issues. Assessment includes assignments, quizzes, exams, attendance and participation.

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Department of Psychology

Course Syllabus for the course of ᴪcal  Understand the nature and functions
Testing of standardized tests Understand
Course Name: Psychological Testing different types of cognitive non-
Course Code: Psyc2035 cognitive tests Adapt, develop and
Cr. Hr: 3 use standardized tests
Course Description Unit 1: Introduction to Psychological
This course equips students with the Testing
concept, history, concerns and legal issues 1.1. Meaning of psychological testing
in relation to psychological tests. The 1.2. Types of psychological tests
course specifically deals with the basics of 1.3. Historical roots of psychological
developing and interpreting psychological tests
tests, brief history of psychological testing 1.4. Functions of psychological testing
and statistical concepts as applied for Unit 2: Psychological Attributes & their
developing them. This course is intended Inventories
to acquaint learners with various types of 2.1. Definitions of Psychological
non-cognitive tests and the procedures of attributes
standardizing them. Issues in relation to 2.2. Types of Psychological attributes
standardized tests and their functions will 2.2.1. Intelligence Tests
be discussed. Measurement of intelligence, 2.2.1.1. The nature of Intelligence
personality, attitude and interest tests and tests
interpretation of resulting scores will be 2.2.1.2. Development of
discussed Intelligence Tests
Course Objectives 2.2.1.3. Basic Questions About IQ
At the end of this course, students will be tests
able to: 2.2.1.4. The Uses and Meaning of
 Know about the concept, types and IQ scores
purposes of psychological tests 2.2.1.5. Controversies over IQ:
Appreciate the role of psychological 2.2.1.5.1. Nature vs. Nurture
tests in human life 2.2.1.5.2. Intelligence vs.
 Understand the procedures for general
developing different types of 2.2.1.6. Uses and Abuses of
psychological tests Determine Intelligence tests
qualities of psychological tests 2.2.1.7. Major intelligence tests
2.2.2 Interests Tests 5.1 Determination of test score
2.2.2.1. The Strong interest reliability
inventories 5.2 Reliability estimation and error
2.2.2.1. The Kinder interest 5.3 Uses of reliability coefficient
inventories 5.4 Standard error of measurement
2.2.2.1. Career assessment 5.5 Factors affecting reliability
inventories Unit 6: The validity of psychological
2.2.3 Personality Tests tests
2.2.3.1. Objective measures of 6.1. Content validity
personality 6.2. Construct validity
2.2.3.2. Projective tests of 6.3. Predictive validity
personality 6.4. Concurrent Validity
2.2.3.3. Sample personality Unit 7: Factors Affecting Testing of
inventories Attributes
2.2.4 Achievement Tests 10.1 Culture in tests and assessments
2.2.5 Aptitude Tests 10.2 Gender issues in test use
2.3. Individually administered tests 10.3 Problems in the testing of adult
2.4. Group administered tests intelligence
2.5. Relations among attribute 10.4 Test Anxiety
2.6. Issues in testing Unit 8: Ethical issues in psychological
Unit 3: Basic Concepts in Measurement testing
and Statistics 11.1 Professional issues in
3.1 Psychological measurement psychological testing
3.2 Evaluation of psychological tests 11.2 Selecting a published test
3.3. Statistical concepts 11.3 Sample reviewed tests
3.4 Correlations and predictions References
Unit 4: Scales, Transformations and Anastasi, A. & Urbina, S. (1997).
Norms Psychological testing (7thed.) New
4.1. Transformation of raw scores Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India
4.2. Equating different scale scores Private Limited
4.3. Norms and expectancy tables Borsboom, D., Mellenbergh, G. J., and
4.4. Norms and interpretation of scores Van Heerden, J. (2004).The
Unit 5: Determining the Consistency of concept of validity. Psychological
Test Scores Review 111, 1061–1071.
Cronbach, L. J. (1990). Essentials of
psychological testing (5th ed.).
New York: Harper & Row. Van
der Linden, W. J., and Hambleton,
R. K. (Eds.). (1997). Handbook of
modern item response theory. New
York: Springer-Verlag.
Assessment Techniques
 Group Assignment 10
 Individual Assignment 10
 Quizzes (2)
(5*2=10)
 Mid exam 25
 Final exam 40
 Attendance 3
 Participation 2

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