FF:PSA_012 Introduction to psychometrics - Course Information
PSA_012 Introduction to psychometrics
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2002
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Tomáš Urbánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Mojmír Tyrlík, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jarmila Valchářová - Timetable
- Mon 8:20–9:05 5, Mon 9:10–9:55 5
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Psychology (programme FF, M-PS) (2)
- Course objectives
- Lectures are focused on the theoretical models in the area of the test theory and psychometrics. Students learn basic notions of the classical test theory, procedures of questionnaire and test construction and common methods of item analysis. In the second part of the course they meet other approaches like item response theory and adaptive testing.
- Syllabus
- - psychological assessment in context of the other psychological disciplines, history of psychometrics - clinical and psychometric approach to psyychological diagnostics, the concept of measurement, types of the methods - characteristics of the test methods, their relationships, sources of the bias, standardization - approaches to reliability, types of reliability measures, approaches to validity, types of validity measures - techniques of the test construction - item analysis techniques - normalization, types of standardized scores - new approaches to psychological assessment, Item response theory and adaptive testing - psychometric models - application of psychometric methods, special problems
- Literature
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2002, recent)
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