Exercises in Psychological Testing

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