Introduction to Psychological testing PSY 475

Introduction to Psychological Testing Paper

Summarize the major assumptions and fundamental questions associated with psychological testing

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you summarize the major assumptions and fundamental questions associated with psychological testing. Address the following in your paper:

• Define the term "test." 
• Identify and describe the five major categories of psychological tests as described in the Week 1 course materials.
• Identify and describe both the four major uses and users of psychological tests as described in the Week 1 course materials.
• Compare and contrast the concepts of reliability and validity.
• Discuss how both reliability and validity specifically impact the field of psychological testing.
• The definition of "test" includes an overview of the five perspectives of psychological testing as described in the Week 1 course materials.
• The five major categories of psychological tests (as described in the Week 1 course materials) are each identified and described.
• The four major uses and users of psychological tests (as described in the Week 1 course materials) are each identified and described.
• The definitions of reliability and validity include specifically how these concepts are used in psychological testing.
• A correct distinction between reliability and validity is provided.
• Each of the different types of reliability and validity are identified and described.

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Here are a few things I added from the chapter summary that might be of help when writing the paper:

1. We classify tests into five major categories: mental ability, achievement, personality, interests, and neuropsychological tests, with several subdivisions within some of the major categories.
2. Tests may also be characterized according to whether they are paper and pencil or performance, speed or power, individually or group administered, dependent on maximum or typical performance, and norm-referenced or criterion referenced in their interpretation.
3. The principal uses of tests include clinical, educational, personal, and research
4. Four important assumptions undergird the testing enterprise

*That people have traits and that differences between people in these traits are important

*That we can quantify these traits

*That the traits have some reasonable degree of stability

*That our qualification of the traits bears some relationship to actual behavior

5. The three fundamental questions in testing relate to:

*Reliability-the stability of measure

*Validity-what a test really measures

*Norms-the framework for interpreting test scores

Resource:  Hogan, T. P. (2007). Psychological Testing: A Practice Introduction. (2^nded). John Wiley & sons.