Testing issues
Testing issues include the development, creation, administration, scoring and interpretation of psychological tests. These tests can evaluate ability, such as intelligence, aptitudes, skills and achievement; personality characteristics, such as traits, attitudes, interests and values; and mental health, such as psychological functioning or signs of psychological or neurological disorders. When tests are standardized, psychologists can compare results from one individual with those of others.
Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Psychology
Understanding Testing Issues
- Intelligence and Achievement Testing: Is the Half-Full Glass Getting Fuller?
IQ and achievement tests can give us valuable information, but more research is needed to make sure these tests are used to improve learning opportunities for all students.
Getting Help
News
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New questions on test bias
August 2, 2010, Inside Higher Ed
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Want to understand more about pre-employment testing?
July 24, 2010, The Washington Post
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New evidence of racial bias on SAT
June 21, 2010, Inside Higher Ed
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Looking beyond MCATs to pick future doctors
January 14, 2010, The New York Times
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Longer High-Stakes Tests May Result In a Sense Of Mental Fatigue, But Not In Lower Test Scores
June 1, 2009
Monitor on Psychology Articles
- How do you spot raw legal talent? Take this test.
June 2009
- 'Voodoo' fMRI?
May 2009
- New help for assessing older adults
March 2009
Books
- Responsible Test Use
October 2009
- Correcting Fallacies About Educational and Psychological Testing
December 2008
- Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures, Volume 9
August 2007