Psychometry

Code: PSI11105L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Psychology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

In this UC, the fundamental concepts of the scientific area of Psychometrics, namely the cocnepts of reliability and validity, are aproached and a reference to the main psychological tests is made.

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Learning Goals

1- Knowing the basic concepts of the scientific field of psychometrics, namely the concepts of reliability and validity
2- Knowing the main psychological tests, their psychometric characteristics and ethical issues inherent to its use
3- Knowing the technical procedures necessary for the construction and adaptation of psychological tests, specifically questionnaires
4- Knowing the procedures to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a psychological test
5- Knowing the scoring procedures for some tests
6- Knowing the concept of norms of a test and the interpretation process based on the comparison of the individual results with the normative data

I- Basic concepts
1- Introduction to measurement theory
2- The definition of a psychological test, different classifications of psychological tests and the definition of "scale2 in Psychometrics
3- Reliability
4- Validity
5- Results and norms and interpretation
6- The importance of the technical manual and its topics
7- Ethical issues

II- Applications: Psychological tests
1- The aptitude and intelligence tests
2- The personality questionnaires
2.1- General characteristics
2.2- Construction
2.3- Adaptation
3- Brief reference to the Projective methods as measurement tools: The example of the Rorschach

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies:
1- Expository teaching in theoretical classes and in some practical classes
2- Demonstration, using examples, of the psychometric characteristics of some psychological tests, (using the SPSS as a statistical tool) in practical classes
3- Elaboration and presentation of assigments by students in practical classes
4- Observation of tests' materials and manuals, and scoring of some test protocols in practical classes

Continuous evaluation
Test - 55% of the final classification
Two practical assigments in groups - 45% of the final classification

Final evaluation
Test - 70% of the final classification
Practical individual assigment - 30% of the final classification