PSY 2050B PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTING
SECOND TERM, 2005-2006
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Instructor |
Teaching Assistant |
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LI, Wendy C. W. |
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Office |
FYB 340 |
FYB 351 |
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Telephone |
2609-6241 |
2609-6521 |
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Email |
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Office Hour |
By appointment |
By appointment |
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Lecture (L) |
Tutorial (T)a, b |
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Time |
Thu 10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
Mon 9:30
a.m.-11:15 a.m. (group 1) Mon 11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m. (group 2) |
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Venue |
CKB UG04 |
a CKB UG04 b SB
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 test 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/psy2050b/
or through the CU FORUM.
Class Data Set:
sociable.sav
(SPSS data file)
sociable.doc
(Sociability Questionnaire)
Grading:
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20% |
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Midterm Examination |
25% |
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Final Examination |
30% |
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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/wts/plagiarism.html
http://www.hamilton.edu/academic/Resource/WC/AvoidingPlagiarism.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:
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Week |
Date |
Class |
Topic |
Readings |
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1 |
Jan 9 |
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**No Class**
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Jan 12 |
L1 |
Basic
Concepts in Psychological Measurement |
Cohen &
Swerdlik, Ch. 1 |
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Jan 16 |
T1
(a) |
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Jan 19 |
L2 |
Scales,
Transformations, and Norms |
Cohen
& Swerdlik, Ch. 3, Ch.
4 (pp. 92 - 114) |
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3 |
Jan 23 |
T2 (b) |
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Jan 26 |
L3 |
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Kidder
& Judd, Ch. 9 |
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**Deadline for
Submitting Group Member List** |
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4 |
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**Lunar New Year Vacation** |
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Feb 6 |
T3 (b) |
SPSS - Correlation
and Regression |
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Feb 9 |
L4 |
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Kidder
& Judd, Ch. 9 |
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Feb 13 |
T4 (a) |
Scale
Construction and Test Development
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Cohen
& Swerdlik, Ch. 7 (pp. 190 - 212)
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Feb 16 |
L5 |
Theory of
Summated Scores
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Ghiselli et al., Ch. 7 (pp. 154 – 177)
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7 |
Feb 20 |
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**Deadline
for Submitting Project Title**
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Feb 23 |
L6 |
Allen & Yen, Ch. 3 Cohen &
Swerdlik, Ch. 5 |
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Feb 27 |
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**Project Consultation I** |
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Mar 2 |
L7 |
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Allen
& Yen, Ch. 4 |
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9 |
Mar 6 |
T5 (b) |
SPSS -
Reliability
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Mar 9 |
L8 |
Validity I
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Cohen &
Swerdlik, Ch. 6
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10 |
Mar 13 |
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**Midterm Examination (CKB UG04)** |
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Mar 16 |
L9 |
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Cohen &
Swerdlik, Ch. 6
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**Deadline for
Submitting Test
Items** |
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Mar 20 |
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**Project Consultation II** |
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Mar 23 |
L10 |
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Sharma, Ch. 5
(pp. 90 - 107)
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Mar 27 |
T6 (a) |
Discussion of
Midterm Examination |
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Mar 30 |
L11 |
Sharma,
Ch. 5 (pp. 116 - 125) |
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Apr
3 |
T7
(b) |
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Apr
6 |
L12
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Cohen
& Swerdlik, Ch. 7 (pp.
212 - 225) |
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Apr
10 |
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**Class Presentation I (CKB UG04)** |
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Apr
13 |
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**Class Presentation II (CKB UG04)** |
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Apr 17 |
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**Public Holiday – Easter** |
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Apr 20 |
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**Class Presentation III (CKB UG04)** |
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(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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