Exercises in Psychological Testing

Provides hands-on experience in many aspects of the testing process, including administering and scoring tests, test construction, norming, and exploration of reliability and validity.   This exercise manual can be used as a stand-alone item in a laboratory-based course or as a supplement to any standard textbook in psychological testing and assessment. The topics covered are those most commonly taught in this course and most familiar and interesting to students. Several tests are employed in various exercises so students can follow them through aspects of development.

Table of Contents:
I.          Background Exercises Exercise 1  Coding and Basic Statistical Procedures........................................................................... 1 Exercise 2  Ethical Issues in Testing: A Case Study Analysis............................................................. 13   II.         Test Administration and Scoring Exercises Exercise 3  Administering and Scoring of the Individual General Ability Test (IGAT) ........................ 19 Exercise 4  Administering and Scoring a Group General Ability Test (GGAT) .................................. 55 Exercise 5  Administering and Scoring a Projective Personality Test (PPT) ...................................... 67 Exercise 6  Administering and Scoring an In-Basket Test (IBT) ....................................................... 97 Exercise 7  Observation and Assessment of Behavior in the Field (FOA) ....................................... 123 Exercise 8  Administering and Scoring a Physical Ability Test (PHT) .............................................. 137 Exercise 9  Administering and Scoring a Role Playing Exercise (RPE) ............................................ 151 Exercise 10  Administering and Scoring an Interview Assessment Scale (IAS) ............................... 167   III.       Test Development Exercises Exercise 11   Building an Achievement Test: The Psychology Achievement Test (PAT) .................. 181 Exercise 12   Empirical Construction of Scales: The Academic Orientation Test (AOT) .................. 193 Exercise 13   Revision of a Test through Item Analyses................................................................... 223 Exercise 14   Building a Faking Scale: The Social Desirability Response Scale (SDR) .................... 241   IV.       Test Validity and Reliability Exercises Exercise 15   Predictive Validity..................................................................................................... 251 Exercise 16   Adverse Impact Analysis.......................................................................................... 265 Exercise 17   Internal Consistency of the GGAT............................................................................. 281     Appendices A         Informed Consent Form Template (and Sample IRB Application Form).............................. 297 B          Universal Demographic Sheet ........................................................................................... 303 C          Correlation Data Sheet .................................................................................................... 305 D          Step-By-Step Computation for Student’s t........................................................................ 309