Syllabus for

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING I

G. Scott Acton
Rochester Institute of Technology

 
This course is an introduction to conceptual and psychometric aspects of psychological testing.
 

Grading

Alternative Representations

 

 

Introduction

Wilson, M. (2002). Introduction. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 7-11). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

 


Construct Modelling: The "4 Building Blocks" Approach

Wilson, M. (2002). Construct modelling: The "4 building blocks" approach. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 13-25). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

 


Construct Mapping

Wilson, M. (2002). Construct mapping. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 27-45). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

 


Alternative Representations as Construct Mapping

Acton, G. S. (2001, February 1). Alternative representations [WWW document]. URL http://www.personalityresearch.org/speaking/representations.html

Day, R. S. (1988). Alternative representations. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 22, 261-305.

 


The Items Design and Outcome Space

Wilson, M. (2002). The items design. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 47-64). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

Wilson, M. (2002). The outcome space. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 65-82). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

 


The Measurement Model

Wilson, M. (2002). The measurement model. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 83-104). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

 


Factor Analysis

Goldberg, L. R., & Digman, J. M. (1994). Revealing structure in the data: Principles of exploratory factor analysis. In S. Strack & M. Lorr (Eds.), Differentiating normal and abnormal personality (pp. 216-242). New York: Springer.

 


Item Response Theory

Embretson, S. E. (1996). The new rules of measurement. Psychological Assessment, 8, 341-349.

Zickar, M. J. (1998). Modeling item-level data with item response theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7, 104-109.

 


The Rasch Model

Acton, G. S. (2003). What is good about Rasch measurement? Rasch Measurement Transactions, 16, 902-903.

Wright, B. D. (1977). Solving measurement problems with the Rasch model. Journal of Educational Measurement, 14, 97-116.

 


Choosing and Evaluating a Measurement Model

Wilson, M. (2002). Choosing and evaluating a measurement model. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 105-128). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

 


Reliability and Validity

Wilson, M. (2002). Reliability. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 129-139). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

Wilson, M. (2002). Validity. In Measurement in education & the social sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 141-164). Berkeley, CA: Copy Central.

Campbell, D. T., & Fiske, D. W. (1959). Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 56, 81-105.

 


Pulling It All Together

Acton, G. S., Kunz, J. D., Wilson, M., & Hall, S. M. (2003). The construct of internalization: Conceptualization, measurement, and prediction of smoking treatment outcome. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Acton, G. S., & Schroeder, D. H. (2001). Sensory discrimination as related to general intelligence. Intelligence, 29, 263-271.

Acton, G. S., Tsoh, J. Y., & Yamada, H. (2003). DSM-IV nicotine dependence is structurally reducible to the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence: An item response theory analysis. Manuscript in preparation.

 


Midterm Exam

Take midterm exam.

 


Data Collection Day

Take each other's tests.

 


What Is ACER ConQuest?

Wu, M. L., Adams, R. J., & Wilson, M. R. (1998). What is ACER ConQuest? In ACER ConQuest: Generalized item response modelling software (pp. 1-6). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

Wu, M. L., Adams, R. J., & Wilson, M. R. (1998). The ACER ConQuest user interfaces. In ACER ConQuest: Generalized item response modelling software (pp. 9-14). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

 


A Dichotomously Scored Multiple Choice Test

Wu, M. L., Adams, R. J., & Wilson, M. R. (1998). A dichotomously scored multiple choice test. In ACER ConQuest: Generalized item response modelling software (pp. 15-23). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

 


Modelling Polytomously Scored Items With the Rating Scale and Partial Credit Models

Wu, M. L., Adams, R. J., & Wilson, M. R. (1998). Modelling polytomously scored items with the rating scale and partial credit models. In ACER ConQuest: Generalized item response modelling software (pp. 25-37). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

 


Differential Item Functioning

Wu, M. L., Adams, R. J., & Wilson, M. R. (1998). Differential item functioning. In ACER ConQuest: Generalized item response modelling software (pp. 75-84). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

 


Multidimensional Models

Wu, M. L., Adams, R. J., & Wilson, M. R. (1998). Multidimensional models. In ACER ConQuest: Generalized item response modelling software (pp. 85-103). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

 


Research Paper Due

Turn in research paper.

 


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