An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment av Colin Cooper

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<P><EM>An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment</EM> is the successor to Cooper''s prize-winning book <EM>Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. </EM>This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen, administered, scored, interpreted and developed. In providing students, researchers, test users, test developers and practitioners in the social sciences, education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing, using, interpreting and developing tests, it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing, together with the necessary methodological detail.</P><P>This book has three distinctive features. First, it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave, rather than reading equations. Readers will "learn by doin