psychological measurement
1psychological testing — Use of tests to measure skill, knowledge, intelligence, capacities, or aptitudes and to make predictions about performance. Best known is the IQ test; other tests include achievement tests designed to evaluate a student s grade or performance… …
2measurement — raises four main issues for the sociologist: representation (how many properties of the empirical world can best be modelled?); uniqueness (how unique are the resulting measurement numbers?); appropriate statistics (what indices may legitimately… …
3Theory of conjoint measurement — The theory of conjoint measurement (also known as conjoint measurement or additive conjoint measurement) is a general, formal theory of continuous quantity. It was independently discovered by the French economist Gerard Debreu (1960) and by the… …
4Level of measurement — The levels of measurement , or scales of measure are expressions that typically refer to the theory of scale types developed by the psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens. Stevens proposed his theory in a 1946 Science article titled On the theory of… …
5School Psychological Examiner — Role of Psychological Examiners in schools School Psychological Examiners are assessors licensed by a State Department of Education to work with students from pre kindergarten to twelfth grade in public schools, interviewing, observing, and… …
6Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing — The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing is a set of testing standards developed jointly by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), American Psychological Association (APA), and the National Council on Measurement in… …
7Positive psychological capital — is defined as the positive and developmental state of an individual as characterized by high Self Efficacy, Optimism, Hope and Resiliency. [• Luthans F., Youssef, C.M. (2004). Human, social, and now positive psychological capital management:… …
8Polynomial conjoint measurement — is an extension of the theory of conjoint measurement to three or more attributes. It was initially developed by the mathematical psychologists David Krantz (1968) and Amos Tversky (1967). The theory was given a comprehensive mathematical… …
9Nambury S. Raju — (1937 – October 27, 2005) was an American psychology professor known for his work in psychometrics, meta analysis, and utility theory. He was a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology.[1] Contents 1 Professional Biography 2… …
10Psychometrics — is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of educational and psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and traits. The field is primarily concerned with the study of… …
