In this assignment, you will be critiquing two psychological tests, a personality test and an intelligence test. You will be critiquing the following categories for each test: General Test Content, Technical Format, Test Strengths and Weaknesses, and Multicultural Applications of the test. You will need to submit a worksheet for each test. The length requirements are listed in each section. Each test critique will be the equivalent of 3-4 pages.
Your paper must also:
Be in APA format, including a title page and reference page.
Be proofread and contain few to no grammar errors, misspellings, or typographical errors.
Incorporate a minimum of three supportive scholarly citations and references to support content and conclusions.
Examples of Personality Tests:
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory- 2nd edition
Millon Clinical Mulitaxial Inventory- 3rd edition
NEO Personality Inventory
Personality Assessment Inventory
California Psychological Inventory
16 Personality Factors
Thematic Apperception Test
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Examples of Intelligence Tests:
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – 4th Ed
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Revised
Test of Nonverbal Intelligence
Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale
Potential resources include, but are not limited to:
Test Materials (test manual, test booklets, etc.)*
- Online databases (such as the ETS Test Collection database at http://www.ets.org/testcoll/)
- Mental Measurements Yearbook
- Test Critiques
- Tests in Print
Findings of reliability and validity studies published in scholarly journals. Journals include:
- Applied Psychological Measurement
- Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
- Journal of Educational Psychology
- Journal of Personality Assessment
- Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
- Journal of School Psychology
- Personnel Psychology
- Psychological Assessment
