PSY 2050A PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

FIRST TERM, 2006-2007

	Instructor	Teaching Assistant
Name	CHAN, Wai	CHEUNG, Ray Y. H.
Office	FYB 340	FYB 348
Telephone	2609-6241	2609-6724
Email	wchan@psy.cuhk.edu.hk	yhcheung@psy.cuhk.edu.hk
Office Hour	By appointment	By appointment
	Lecture (L)	Tutorial (T)^a, b
Time	Wed 16:30 - 18:15	Thu 10:30 - 12:15
Venue	ELB 206	^aELB 206 ^bSB 349 (computer session)

Course Objectives:

To understand the basic principles of psychological measurement and the techniques of test construction, administration, and validation.

Textbook:

Cohen, R. J., & Swerdlik, M. E. (2005). Psychological testing and assessment: An introduction to tests and measurement (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Online Learning Centre:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072887672/information_center_view0/

Course Homepage:

Course material could be accessed electronically via our course homepage at http://www.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/~wchan/psy2050a/ or through the CU FORUM.

Class dataset and sample questionnaire:

Questionnaire: sociable.doc (MS-Word file)

Dataset: sociable.sav (SPSS data file)

Grading:

Assignment	20%
Midterm Examination	25%
Final Examination	30%
Project & Presentation	25%

Academic Honesty:

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. Students are required to submit a statement acknowledging that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures and pledging to be honest in their academic work.

Any assignment (i.e., project, essay, or paper) that shows evidence of plagiarism will be marked down severely. In simple terms, plagiarism is copying passages and/or ideas from other sources without referencing those sources. Moreover, when you report someone else’s ideas/findings you must put it in your own words and not merely copy full sentences or parts of sentences from the source article. It is your responsibility as a scholar-in-training to cite the ideas and work of others correctly. Please visit the following additional websites for discussions of how to recognize and avoid plagiarism.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

http://www.hamilton.edu/writing/style/plagiarism/plagiarism.html

References:

Allen, M. J., & Yen, W. M. (1979). Introduction to measurement theory. Monterey, CA:

Brooks/Cole.

Ghiselli, E. E., Campbell, J. P., & Zedeck, S. (1981). Measurement theory for the behavioral

sciences. San Francisco, CA: Freeman.

Kidder, L. H., & Judd, C. M. (1986). Research methods in social relations (5th ed.). New

York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Sharma, S. (1996). Applied multivariate techniques. New York: Wiley.

Class Schedule:

Week	Date	Class	Topic	Readings
1	Sep 6	L1	Basic Concepts in Psychological Measurement	Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 1
	Sep 7	T1 (a)	Project Briefing
2	Sep 13	L2	Scales, Transformations, and Norms I	Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 3
	Sep 14		**Deadline for Submitting Group Member List**
3	Sep 20	L3	Scales, Transformations, and Norms II	Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 4 (pp. 92 - 114)
	Sep 21	T2 (b)	Introduction to SPSS
4	Sep 27	L4	Scale Construction I	Kidder & Judd, Ch. 9
	Sep 28	T3 (b)	SPSS - Correlation and Regression
5	Oct 4	L5	Scale Construction II	Kidder & Judd, Ch. 9
	Oct 5	T4 (a)	Scale Construction and Test Development	Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 7 (pp. 190 - 212)
6	Oct 11	L6	Theory of Summated Scores	Ghiselli et al., Ch. 7 (pp. 154 – 177)
	Oct 12		**Deadline for Submitting Project Title**
7	Oct 18	L7	Reliability I	Allen & Yen, Ch. 3 Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 5
	Oct 19	T5 (a)	Midterm Examination (ELB 206)
8	Oct 25	L8	Reliability II	Allen & Yen, Ch. 4
	Oct 26	T6 (b)	SPSS - Reliability
9	Nov 1	L9	Validity I	Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 6
	Nov 2		**Deadline for Submitting Test Items**
10	Nov 8	L10	Validity II	Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 6
	Nov 9	L11	Factor Analysis I	Sharma, Ch. 5 (pp. 90 - 107)
11	Nov 15	L12	Factor Analysis II	Sharma, Ch. 5 (pp. 116 – 125)
	Nov 16	T7 (b)	SPSS – Factor Analysis
12	Nov 22	L13	Item Analysis	Cohen & Swerdlik, Ch. 7 (pp. 212 - 225)
	Nov 23	T8 (a)	Discussion of Midterm Examination
13	Nov 29	T9 (a)	Class Presentation I (ELB 206)
	Nov 30	T10 (a)	Class Presentation II (ELB 206)

(To be signed by students at the beginning of the semester)

I promise that all assignments submitted to this course across the entire semester will be original except for source material explicitly acknowledged. I also acknowledge that I am aware of University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and of the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations as contained in the website http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.

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