PSY 335 Chapter all: Psyc117-02_Feist
28 Apr 2018
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Test & Measures: Psychology 117
Term: Spring 2013
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Instructor: Dr. Gregory Feist Office hours: T TH noon-1:15
Office Phone: (408) 924-5617 Office hours end last week of instruction, May 9
Office Location: DMH 313 Final Exam: Tue May 21, 9:45-noon
Email: greg[email protected]
Class Website: http://sjsu.desire2learn.com
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your Desire2Learn name (look for Name Type called D2L) from the list. Password: Your initial D2L password is
your 9 digit SJSU ID number.
Required Materials & Resources:
1. R. J. Cohen, M.E. Swerdlik, & E. Sturman (2013). Psychological Testing and Assessment (8th Edition), McGraw-Hill.
ISBN-13 9780078035302
2. Regular access to a computer (with Internet connection), a handheld calculator, and possession of a wordprocessor
program (Word, GoogleDocs, Pages, WordPerfect)
Course Overview
Course Description:
Test and questionnaire construction, evaluation and interpretation applied to intelligence and ability tests, personality and
adjustment questionnaires, ratings and behavioral observation techniques.
Prerequisite: STAT 95.
Learning Objectives:
After successfully completing this class, students shall be able:
1. Recognize the major uses of psychological measurement procedures.
2. Recognize principles of administering, scoring, and interpreting psychological measures.
3. Identify sources of information about published and unpublished measures and know how to obtain
that information.
4. Understand basic descriptive statistics as applied in psychological measurement.
5. Identify and differentiate among the major ways of estimating reliability and validity; identify the
major principles of practicality, classical reliability theory, and validity.
6. Recognize the major characteristics, advantages, limitations, and proper uses of the following types of
psychological measures (as well as specific examples of each):
a). group and individual tests of intelligence
b). tests of abilities and aptitudes
c). self-report and projective measures of personality
d). paper-and-pencil rating procedures
e). situational measures
g). behavioral observation
h). neuropsychological measures
Office Hours:
Please see me during my office hours. I encourage every single student to see me at least once during the semester. Many
things can be clarified more easily one-on-one and it gives us a chance to get acquainted with each other.
