Course Contents

1. • Psychological Testing • Overview of Psychological Testing. 2. • Importance of Psychological Testing • History of modern Psychological Testing 3. • Ethical and legal considerations in the use of tests • Issues to be considered • Information about tests • Rights and responsibilities of test takers 4. • Lab and discussion: ethical issues 5. • Tests and surveys • Overview of general steps in developing a psychometric instrument • Issues of test bias • The Survey Research method 6. • Translation & adaptation • Need for translation • Procedure for translation: Forward & Backward 7. • Critical issues in adapting a test • How to deal with issues regarding adaptation• 8. • Practical exercises 9. • Developing specifications • The framework and specifications • Using human subjects for research 10. • Conceptual foundation of measurement • Overview of effective instrument development • Brief introduction to latent variables • Constructing affective instruments • Literature review • Writing items 11. • Content validation • Unidimensionality • Pilot testing 12. • Pre testing techniques • Pre testing strategies • Filed testing 13. • Establishing construct validity • Exploratory factor analysis 14. • Item analysis 15. • Reliability • Reliability: methods of assessment • Issues in assessment of reliability 16. • Application • Report writing • Using pilot tests to improve instruments • Short presentations of instruments in class

Course Synopsis

Course Description: Psychometrics is supplementary psychological science providing technical background especially for psychological diagnostic. Alternatively it can be considered as theoretical special focus of the course will be on scale development, translation and adaptation process. Objectives: During the course students will master fundamental principles of psychological measurement with focus on translation, adaptation and scale development. At the end of the semester successful students will be able to evaluate manuals of psychological assessment methods, review their psychometrical qualities and indicate adequate use of these methods. They will posses necessary qualification for planning and technical realization of full (re-) standardization of existing psychological assessment method, respectively they will be able to create simple assessment method on their own.

Course Learning Outcomes

The scholars will be able to use variety of tools, can adapt them as per indigenous deal and finally can contribute to make tools as per cultural norms and values.