Psychological Assessment
Assignment 1
PYC 4807
Psychological assessment
Assignment 1
Development of a psychological measure Completed by
Georgio Laporta
4420-414-0
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Completed by Georgio Laporta (4420-414-0)
PYC 4807
Psychological Assessment
Assignment 1
Index
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Plagiarism Declaration
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1. Introduction/Concepts used
1.1. Psychometric testing
1.2. Test development and choosing items
1.3. Test adaption
2. Developing a psychological assessment measure
2.1. Steps taken in developing a measure
2.2. Planning phase
2.3. Defining the content of a measure
2.4. Develop the test plan
2.5. Item writing
2.6. Assemble and pre-test
2.7. Item-analysis phase
2.7.1. Classical test theory
2.7.2. Item response theory
2.8. Identifying items for final pool
2.9. Revise and standardising the measure
3. Evaluating reliability and validity
3.1.1. Reliability
3.1.2. Factors that affect reliability
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Validity
Factors affecting validity
4. Establishing Norms
4.1. Standard scores
4.2. Setting standards and cut-off scores
5. Adaption into cross culture application
5.1. Design for adapting measures
5.2. Bias and equivalence in adapting measure
6. Bibliography
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Psychological Assessment
Assignment 1
Plagiarism Declaration
1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is using another’s work and pretending that it is one’s own work
2. I have used the American Psychological Association (APA) as the convention for citation and referencing. Each significant contribution to, and quotation in, this assignment from the work, or works of other people has been attributed and has been cited and referenced
3. This assignment is my own work
4. I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work
5. I acknowledge that copying someone else 's assignment or
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