Share
Tests & Measurement for People Who (Think They) Hate Tests & Measurement
Third Edition
June 2017 | 448 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Using his signature, conversational writing style and straightforward presentation, Neil J. Salkind’s best-selling Tests & Measurement for People Who (Think They) Hate Tests & Measurement guides readers through an overview of categories of tests, the design of tests, the use of tests, and some of the basic social, political, and legal issues that the process of testing involves. The Third Edition includes a new chapter on item response theory, new sections on neuropsychological testing, new cartoons, and additional end-of-chapter exercises. Free online resources accompany the text to make teaching easier and provide students with the practice tools they need to master the material.
A Note to the Student: Why I Wrote This Book
Acknowledgments
About the Author
PART I In the Beginning . . .
1. Why Me-asurement? An Introduction
PART II The Psychology of Psychometrics
2. One Potato, Two Potatoes . . . Levels of Measurement and Their Importance
3. Getting It Right Every Time: Reliability and Its Importance
4. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Validity and Its Importance
5. Welcome to Lake Wobegon, Where All the Children Are Above Average: Norms and Percentiles
6. Item Response Theory—A “New” Kid on the Block
PART III The Tao and How of Testing
7. Short-Answer and Completion Items: Baskin Robbins® Has __ Flavors
8. Essay Items: Hope You Can Write
9. Multiple-Choice Items: Always Pick Answer C and You’ll Be Right About 25% of the Time
10. Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Matching Items
11. True-False Tests: T or F? I Passed My First Measurement Test
12. Portfolios: Seeing the Big Picture
13. So, Tell Me About Your Childhood: Interesting Interviews
PART IV What to Test and How to Test It
14. Achievement Tests: Who Really Discovered America?
15. Personality and Neuropsychological Testing: Type A, B, or Me?
16. Aptitude Tests: What’s in Store for Me?
17. Intelligence Tests: That Rubik’s Cube Is Driving Me Nuts
18. Career Choices: So You Want to Be a What?
PART V It’s Not Always as You Think: Issues in Tests and Measurement
19. Test Bias: Fair for Everyone?
20. The Law, Testing, and Ethics: No Child (Should Be) Left Behind and Other Very Interesting Stuff
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Your Tests and Measurement Toolkit
Appendix B: The Guide to (Almost) Every Test in the Universe
Appendix C: Answer to Practice Questions
Appendix D: A (Very Brief) Review of the Official Standards for Psychological and Educational Testing
Glossary
References
Index
Supplements
Instructor Resource Site
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- A Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing multiple choice, true/false, short answer, for each chapter. The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
- Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
- The solutions manual includes complete answers to the practice problems in the text.
- EXCLUSIVE! Access to certain full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected for each chapter.
- Lively and stimulating ideas for class activities that can be used in class to reinforce active learning. The activities apply to individual or group projects.
- Chapter-specific discussion questions help launch classroom interaction by prompting students to engage with the material and by reinforcing important content.
Student Study Site
The open-access Student Study Site includes the following:
- Mobile-friendly eFlashcards reinforce understanding of key terms and concepts that have been outlined in the chapters.
- Mobile-friendly web quizzes allow for independent assessment of progress made in learning course material.
- Multimedia links supplement key points within the text.
- EXCLUSIVE! Selected full-text SAGE journal articles expand on concepts in the chapters.
Neil Salkind presents material in a cogent and skillful way for folks that are new to this material.
School of Music, University Of South Carolina
October 6, 2019
I have taught Test and Measurement before and I found it hard to engage my undergraduate students. This book provides fun and interesting examples that help motivate students, while also presenting clear and comprehensive material for learning.
Facultad de Ciencias Politicas, National Autonomous Univ of Mexico
May 25, 2017