Modern psychometrics: the science of psychological assessment/ John Rust

1 The development of psychometrics
Psychometrics today
The history of psychometrics
Issues in intelligence testing
The ethics of IQ testing
Summary
2 The objectives of testing and assessment
Psychometrics and sociobiology
Is psychometrics a science?
What does psychometrics measure?
The theory of true scores
The true psychometrics: trait or function?
Summary
3 The process of test- construction
Knowledge-based end person-based questionnaires
Objective and open-ended tests
Norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing
Obtaining test scores by summing item scores
The correction for guessing in objective
knowledge-based tests
Summary
4 Item analysis
Classical item analysis statistics for knowledge-based
tests
Classical item analysis for person-based tests
item analysis in criterion-referenced testing
Psychological traits, true scores and internal test
structure
Classical item analysis for more complex situations
Summary
5 Characteristics of tests
Reliability
Validity
Standardisation
Normalisation
Summary
6 Bias in testing and assessment
Bias and fairness
Forms of bias
Item bias
Intrinsic test bias
Extrinsic test bias
Summary
7 Factor analysis
The correlation coefficient
The application of factor analysis to test construction
Criticisms of the classical factor analytic approach
Special uses of factor analysis in test construction
Summary
8 Using psychometrics in educational settings
Questioning the examination system
Measuring ability in schoolchildren
Measuring achievement in schoolchildren
Ability-achievement discrepancy analysis
Summary
9 Personality theory and clinical assessment
Definitions of personality
Genetic vs. environmental influences on personality
Theories of personality
Types vs. traits
Approaches to personality assessment
Sources and management of sabotage
Informal methods of personality assessment
State vs. trait measures
Ipsative scaling
Spurious validity and the Barnum effect
Assessment in clinical psychology
Summary
10 Psychometric assessment of personality in
occupational settings
The Big Five model
Orpheus: a work-based personality questionnaire that
assesses the Big Five
The Orpheus scales
The psychometric characteristics of Orpheus
Using Orpheus
Summary
11 Ethical test use and integrity testing
Administrative procedures for psychometric testing
Integrity testing
Theories of integrity
Giotto; a psychometric test of integrity
Summary
12 Psychometrics in the information
technology age
Computerisation
Artificial intelligence
Summary
13 Constructing your own questionnaire
The purpose of the questionnaire
Making a blueprint
Writing items
Designing the questionnaire
Piloting the questionnaire
Item analysis
Reliability
Validity
Standardisation