Psychological Testing: Principles, Applications, and Issues 9th Edition by Rober

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Psychological Testing by Robert Kaplan, Dennis Saccuzzo PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING: PRINCIPLES, APPLICATIONS, AND ISSUES, Ninth Edition explains the fundamentals of psychological testing, their important applications, and the controversies that emerge from those applications in clinical, education, industrial, and legal settings. Kaplan and Saccuzzos engaging and thorough text demonstrates how psychological tests are constructed and used, both in a professional setting and in everyday lives. Part I focuses on the core concepts that affect the evaluation of all tests. Part II discusses the major types of psychological tests, while Part III looks at present-day issues affecting testing such as stereotype threat, bias, laws, and ethics. A multitude of test profiles and sample items illustrate how psychological testing is used and reported. Real-life case studies demonstrate the uses and misuses of psychological testing, while Technical Example boxes help you understand complex statistical concepts. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Robert M. Kaplan is a visiting professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he works with the Clinical Excellence Research Center and the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is also Regenstrief Distinguished Fellow at the Purdue University. He was the Chief Science Officer in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) from 2014-2016. Dr. Kaplan served as the National Institutes of Health Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences and Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). Previously, he was a Distinguished Professor of Health Services and department Chair at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego. He is a past president of several organizations, including the American Psychological Association Division of Health Psychology and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Dr. Kaplan is a former Editor-in-Chief of Health Psychology and the Annals of Behavioral Medicine and author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books and over 500 articles or chapters. His work has been cited in nearly 30,000 papers; the ISI recognizes him as one of the most cited authors in his field. In 2005 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences (now the National Academy of Medicine). Dr. Kaplan has received numerous honors, most recently American Sociological Association Policy Scientist of the Year (2012), and a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. Dennis P. Saccuzzo is an Emeritus professor of psychology at San Diego State University. He has been a scholar and practitioner of psychological testing for over 40 years and has numerous peer-reviewed publications and professional presentations in the field. Dr. Saccuzzos research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Education, the Scottish Rite Foundation, and the U.S. armed services. He is also a California licensed psychologist and a California licensed attorney. He is board certified in clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). In addition, he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology (ABAP) and the American Board of Forensic Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and Western Psychological Association for outstanding and unusual contributions to the field of psychology. Dr. Saccuzzo is the author or co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed papers and publications, including eight textbooks and 20 law manuals. He is the president and co-founder of Applications of Psychology to Law, Inc., an educational institution that applies psychological science to legal issues and the study of law. Table of Contents Part I: PRINCIPLES.1. Introduction.2. Norms and Basic Statistics for Testing.3. Correlation and Regression.4. Reliability.5. Validity.6. Writing and Evaluating Test Items.7. Test Administration.Part II: APPLICATIONS.8. Interviewing Techniques.9. Theories of Intelligence and the Binet Scales.10. The Wechsler Intelligence Scales: WAIS-IV, WISC-IV, and WPPSI-III.11. Testing in Education: Tests of Ability in Education and Special Education.12. Standardized Tests in Education, Civil Service, and the Military.13. Applications in Clinical and Counseling Settings.14. Projective Personality Tests.15. Computers and Basic Psychological Science in Testing.16. Testing in Counseling Psychology.17. Testing in Health Psychology and Health Care.18. Testing in Industrial and Business Settings.Part III: ISSUES.19. Test Bias.20. Testing and the Law.21. The Future of Psychological Testing. Details ISBN1337098132 Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc Year 2017 Edition 9th ISBN-10 1337098132 ISBN-13 9781337098137 Format Paperback Subtitle Principles, Applications, and Issues Country of Publication United States Author Dennis Saccuzzo Pages 752 DEWEY 150.287 Publication Date 2017-01-06 Textbook 1 Short Title Psychological Testing Language English Series MindTap Course List UK Release Date 2017-01-06 NZ Release Date 2017-01-06 US Release Date 2017-01-06 Birth 1947 Affiliation University of California, San Diego Position Nancy Hoefs Professor of English Qualifications BSc (Hons), PhD, Grad Cert Tertiary Education Edition Description 9th edition Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc Place of Publication Belmont, CA Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2017-01-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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