PSYC 3250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Strong Interest Inventory, Content Validity, Construct Validity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3250
• Professor: Scott Colwell

Document Summary

Characteristics of a good test of general-mental ability. Measures of specific intellectual abilities follow the same basic rules of test construction as do measures of nonintellectual abilities or measure of specific personality variables. Broad sampling of tasks first principle for measuring general intelligence is that the test should include a broad sampling of cognitively demanding tasks. Ex. a test that consists exclusively of reading comprehension items is a reading comprehension test, not necessarily a test of general intelligence. May be achieved by including items that tap many different aspects of the domain increases the content validity of a test of general intelligence. Intelligence tests are not information tests big distinction between aptitude tests. Achievement tests are used widely in educational settings and measure one"s. Aptitude tests are more general in nature and designed to measure mastery of a specific branch of knowledge and achievement tests cumulative knowledge, skills, abilities intelligence tests should not predominantly measure knowledge of specific facts.