Practical Test Administration
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Course outline – Practical test administration
Each session lasts approximately four hours
Day 1
Session 1 – the legal and ethical framework of test use in South Africa
The nature of a psychological test in the context of Act 56 of 1974
Protection of the public
Historical background to psychological testing in South Africa
Implications of the privatisation of the psychometrics industry in South Africa
Regulation of the testing industry
The Employment Equity Act
Requirements for psychometric tests
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Applied statistics and psychometrics
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Course outline: Applied statistics and psychometrics
Each session lasts approximately four hours
Day 1
Session 1 - Norms and correlations
Theoretical basis for psychometric testing
Major theoretical assumptions
Norms and standardised scores
Measures of central tendency
The normal distribution curve
Different standard scores, how they are calculated and when to use them
Practical demonstration and exercise – calculating standard scores using a spreadsheet
Producing norm tables with Prof Paul Barrett’s Stanscore program (free public domain software)
Evaluating tets – what to look for in a test manual
Key psychometric properties – reliability and validity
Correlation – revision of basic principles
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