Required and Supplementary Readings
for Psychology 612
Module 1: Test Development
Turner: APA's guidelines for test-user qualifications (required)
http://www.cpsimoes.net/artigos/art_psycho_eng.html (required)
http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html (required)
Lowman: What every psychologist should know about assessment (optional)
Testing and assessment: An employer's guide to good practices (O*NET) (optional for I/O types)
Module 2: Reliability
Alternative correlational techniques (Howell chapter) (required)
Schmitt: Uses and abuses of coefficient alpha (required)
Cronbach and Shavelson: My current thoughts on coefficient alpha and successor procedures (optional)
Burke and Dunlap: Estimating interrater agreement with the average deviation index: A user's guide (optional)
Schuster: A note on the interpretation of weighted kappa... (optional)
Module 3: Validity
Messick: Validity of psychological assessment (required)
Factor analysis (Kachigan chapter) (required)
Brackett and Mayer: Convergent, discriminant and incremental validity of competing measure of emotional intelligence (optional)
Fiske and Campbell: Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait multimethod matrix (optional)
Lucas et al.: Discriminant validity of well-being measures (optional)
Multiple regression (Howell chapter) (required)
Module 5: Item Response Theory
http://work.psych.uiuc.edu/irt/tutorial.asp (required)
Harvey and Hammer: Item response theory (optional)
Embretson: The new rules of measurement (optional)