Cursos / 1º Ciclo / / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology
PSICOMETRIA - 2023/2024
2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Joana Oliveira
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Joana Oliveira
Class type and School hours
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Teaching Language
Portuguese
Main Aims/Objectives
To sensitize students to the importance of psychometrics as constituting a basic requirement for users of psychological tests.
Specific Aims/Objectives
- Promote the development of skills relating to the drafting of tests, as well as the study of its psychometric characteristics.
- To provide some practice in correction and interpretation of results obtained in the tests.
Skills to be acquired
- Know how to make the study of a psychometric scale, using the SPSS.
- Convert the raw results of a test in a kind of standards.
- Critically analyze a manual test.
Teaching Procedures
The teaching methodology includes:
- Lectures, supported by powerpoint presentation, with a view to deepening theoretical and open discussion for students.
- Support for individual work consisting in a psychometric study of a psychological test.
Programme
Psychometrics: Definition and reference field
Ethics and the ethics of testing use
Test Definition
Advantages and disadvantages in the use of tests
Classification of tests
The process of construction and adaptation of a test
Characteristics of the psychometric tests
sensitivity
- Factors that can alter sensitivity of a test
- How to study the sensitivity of a test
- The study of the sensitivity of a test using the SPSS
fidelity
-How to study the fidelity of a test (test-retest method, parallel forms, splitting, internal consistency)
- The study of the fidelity of a test using the SPSS
validity
- Types of validity (content, construct and criterion (concurrent and predictive))
The process of creating standards
The different types of standards (chronological, centiles, typical and standard classes)
The process of standardizing and measuring
Contact with manual testing and critical analysis.
Evaluation Type
- Two interim written tests
- Implementation of individual work, consisting of the psychometric study of a scale (choice of scale, administration, data entry in SPSS, statistical analysis and reporting in the format of scientific article).
Teaching Resources
Powerpoint presentations
IBM SPSS Statistics
Bibliographic references
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
Psychological tests
Test construction
Test psychometric properties
Norms
Main Bibliography
Author | Schweizer, c., & DiStefano, c. |
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Title | Principles and Methods of Test Construction |
Edition | 1ª Edição |
Editor | Hogrefe |
Year | 2016 |
Author | Urbina, S. |
Title | Essentials of Psychological Testing, |
Edition | 7ª Edição |
Place | Porto Alegre |
Year | 2014 |
Author | Cohen, R. J., & Swerdik, M. |
Title | Psychological testing and assessment: An introduc |
Edition | 9th Ed |
Place | New York |
Editor | McGraw-Hill Higher Education |
Year | 2018 |
Complementary Bibliography
Author | Kline, P. |
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Title | A Handbook of Test Construction: Introduction to P |
Author | Pasquali, L. |
Title | Psicometria: Teoria dos testes na psicologia e na |