This book offers a fresh and innovative approach to students and faculty in the fields of testing, measurement, psychometrics, research design, and related areas of study. Theresa Kline guides readers through the process of designing and evaluating a text, paying careful attention to ensure that the test meets the highest professional standards. Kline uses simple, clear examples throughout and fully details the required statistical analyses. Topics include-but are not limited to-design of item stems and responses; sampling strategies; classical and modern test theory; IRT program examples; reliability of tests and raters; validation using content, criterion-related, and factor analytic approaches; text and item bias; and professional and ethical issues in testing. With students in mind, Kline has created features that ease them into more difficult ideas, always stressing the practical use of theoretical concepts. Psychological Testing is perfectly suited as a main text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate testing or psychometrics courses in departments of Psychology, Education, Sociology, Management, and in Human Services disciplines. Professional researchers, educators, and consultants will also want to add this to their libraries for up-to-date coverage of test design and evaluation techniques.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Theresa J.B. Kline
Theresa J.B. Kline (Ph.D., 1990) is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Calgary. She has an active research program in the areas of psychometrics, team performance, organizational effectiveness, and work attitudes. Theresa has published two books on teams, Teams That Lead (2003) and Remaking Teams (1999), and has published over 50 peer-reviewed journals articles. Theresa teaches psychometrics, statistics, methods, and organizational psychology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has an active organizational consulting practice with projects ranging from individual and organizational assessment to strategic alignment. She has made presentations and run workshops on topics that range from statistics and methods to how to use assessment tools for personnel decision making in an ethical manner to executive team development practices. Theresa has supervised more than a dozen research-based theses. She encourages her students to take an active role in deciding what they will study, and, as a result, she has learned at least as much from them as they have from her, as they have drawn her into research areas such as organizational learning, lifelong learning, organizational citizenship, fairness, leadership, job change, workplace stress, and performance appraisal.
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