Psychometrics: History, Overview, and Applications (4th Edition)

Author: [USA] Gregory
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book organizes the vast and complex system of psychological tests into nearly 30 small, modular topics based on their historical development, principles, and applications, serving as the book's foundational and inseparable units to facilitate research and learning. Additionally, while maintaining subtle but significant updates throughout to adapt to the evolution of psychological testing, this edition continues to incorporate historical case studies and small illustrations to highlight test content and maximize its response to the latest findings in professional psychological testing. It also offers new insights into existing content. Beyond summarizing traditional areas of psychometrics, the 4th edition provides detailed analyses of neuropsychology and geriatric medicine. It extensively examines the applications and even abuses of early psychological testing, such as learning disabilities, measurement in specific contexts, the reflection of racial differences in IQ, and deception in group achievement tests. At the same time, it offers critical descriptions and analyses of recent psychometric methods, scrutinizes the nuances of the measurement process, and explores the broad value controversies surrounding the psychometric process.