Psychological Assessment I

In this first semester of a two-semester sequence on psychological assessment, students will be educated in issues of psychometric testing including reliabilty, validity, identifying and selecting test instruments, interpreting norm-referenced and criterion-referenced test scores, test construction, fairness and bias and elements of standardization. In addition, this course will introduce legal/ethical issues pertaining to assessment, and the procedure of assessment within clinical, workplace and education settings.The methodology, with and without technology, of interviews, observation, standardized tests, self-report measures, physiological or psychophysiological measurement devices, and other specialized procedures and apparatuses will be researched and reviewed.