MEASUREMENT IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

Additivity in Psychological Measurement

Shows how the Rasch model i s a u n i t m a i n t a i n i n g process (Thurstone, 1931) which enables the construct i o n of a d d i t i v i t y (Campbell, 1920) and hence fundamental measurement (Luce and Tukey, 1964). Provides the b a s i c s t a t i s t i c s f o r determining the extent to which a d d i t i v i t y has been approximated w i t h p a r t i c u l a r data. (A note reviews the ...

Psychological assessment.

This course is intended to introduce you to adult psychological assessment and to acquaint you with the types of assessment devices used by psychologists. During the semester, you will learn how to administer, score, and interpret a variety of psychological tests and how to write a psychological report using a core set of assessment measures commonly used by counseling and clinical psychologist...

Aligning psychological assessment with psychological science.

Network analysis is a promising step forward in efforts to align psychological assessment with explanatory theory in psychological science. The implications of Cramer et al.'s analysis are quite general. Networks analysis may illuminate functional relations not only among observable behaviors that comprise psychological disorders, but among cognitive and affective processes that causally contri...

The Chronic Crisis in Psychological Measurement and Assessment: A Historical Survey

Attempting Measurement of Psychological Attributes

Measures of psychological attributes abound in the social sciences as much as measures of physical properties do in the physical sciences. However, there are crucial differences between the scientific underpinning of measurement. While measurement in the physical sciences is supported by empirical evidence that demonstrates the quantitative nature of the property assessed, measurement in the so...