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Guidance and Counseling
Group-E Paper-II
Psychological Testings    

Objectives :

   The Student :

  1. Understand the meaning and nature of psychological resting and its underlying principles

  2. Select and administers tests

  3. Scores Tests and interpret results

  4. Appreciates the Need to have a wide range of test material in the School 

 

Syllabus :

Unit - I        Introduction of Psychological Tests

(a)    the Meaning and nature of psychological testing

(b)    (i)     Defining of a Psychological Test

        (ii)    Types of Tests (e.g. individual vs Group, Terms referenced Vs Criterio

        (iii)    Uses of tests

        (iv)    Characteristics of good Test

        (v)    misuses of psychological tests and safeguards to avoid them

Unit - II        Test construction and standardisation

(a)    General procedure from the selection of traits to establishing reliability and validity

(b)    (i)    classification of  what to be measured

        (ii)    Preparing a List of behaviors-trait selection

        (iii)    item construction

        (iv)    tryouts of the tests its objectives

        (v)    item analysis-qualitative as well as Quantitative

        (vi)    item selection

        (vii)    special factors to be considered in test construction, format, time administration mode of answer,

                 scoring etc.

        (viii)    Sampling procedures need and purpose, major types sample for pilot studies, item analysis and final

                 run

        (ix)    standardisation of administration procedure final run

Unit - III        Norms, Reliabilities and validity :

(a)    Norms :

  1. Need for norms, its definition

  2. different types of norms and their derivation

  3. Kinds of norms-sex norms age-norms  etc

  4. verbal interpretation of different norms i.e. interpretation of test result

(b)    Reliability :

  1. concepts of different types of reliabilities, its definition

  2. methods of estimating reliability their advantages and limitations 

  3. standard error and measurement

(c)    Validity

  1. Definition, different types of validity

  2. Pros and cons of each type of validity

  3. Relation between Reliability and validity

  4. Cross-validation, expectancy tables, cut off scores

Unit - IV        Measurement of educational achievement, intelligence and aptitudes :

  1. Tests of educational achievement, proficiency tests, diagnostic tests

  2. Tests of intelligence-meaning, individual scales of Stanford-Binet and wechsler and their Gujarati adaptations, Group Tests of intelligence verbal, non verbal, performance tests.

  3. Attitudes and their testing-meaning Global and unitary approaches of aptitude testing, multifactor test batteries-DAT, GATB, other Tests of special abilities and professional aptitudes

  4. Information about tests of intelligence and aptitude available in Gujarati.

Unit - V        Measurement of interests, attitudes, Value and personality :

  1. Nature of interest kinds of interest different approaches for the assessment of interest, relation between interest and aptitude, kuder's and strong's interest inventories, information about about measurement of  interest in Gujarati.

  2. Methods of constructing attitude, scale likert, Thurstone and guttman

  3. Types of values and their measurement

  4. Different vies about the concept of personality, different approaches for the approaches personality rating scales, inventories, projective techniques information about Rorschah and TAT, situational tests. work done in Gujarati in the field of personality assessment.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

  1. Anastasi a, Psychological Testing. New York : macmillan Publishing Co.( 5th  ed.) 1982.

  2. Buros D.K.(ed.) The seventh mental measurement Year Book. Highland Park, N.G. Gryphone press 1972.

  3. Cronbach, L.J. Essential of psychological testing New york : harper, (3rd ed.) 1970.

  4. freeman F.S.Theory and practice of psychological testing. New delhi Oxford and IBM Co.1968

  5. Gareet H.E. Statistics in psychology and education. Bombay : Vakils,Feffor and Simons pvt. Ltd. 1969

  6. Helms taller, G.C. Principal of psychological measurement. London Methaen Co.Ltd. 1966

  7. Long, L. and mehta P.H. : The first Mental Measurement Hand Book for india New Delhi NCERT. 1966

  8. Nunnally, Psychometric theory. New York McGraw hill Book Co.inc 1967.

  9. Nunnally J.C.: Educational measurement and Evaluation, New York McGraw Hill 1972.

  10. Pareek,U and Soud, S. Directory of Indian Behavioral science Research Delhi :Acharan sahakar 1971

  11. Super D.E. and Crites J.C. Appraising Vocational fitness by means of psychological tests. Delhi Universal Book Stall 1968.

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