Psychometric Foundations and Test Reliability

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📋 Course Outline

  1. Foundations and history of psychometrics
  2. Types of psychological tests and response formats for optimal and typical performance
  3. Test construction and item writing guidelines
  4. Quantification and scoring methods for different test types
  5. Item analysis: difficulty, discrimination, and validity indices
  6. Classical Test Theory assumptions and reliability estimation methods
  7. Sources of measurement error and reliability types
  8. Strategies to improve test reliability and minimum reliability standards

📖 1. Foundations and history of psychometrics

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Test Mental : a psychological measurement tool designed to assess individual differences in sensory-motor tasks, introduced by Galton and Catell in the 19th century.

  • Pequeño repaso : a brief review or summary of foundational concepts in psychometrics, emphasizing its historical development from early sensory tests to modern models.

  • Relación : a quantitative or qualitative connection between variables, such as the correlation or association measured in psychometric analysis.

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1. How do Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory primarily differ in their approach to psychometric measurement?

2. What are the typical response formats used in optimal and typical psychological tests?

3. What is a key feature of well-constructed multiple-choice items?

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Psychometrics — definition?

Measurement of psychological attributes.

Test Mental — role?

Assess individual sensory-motor differences.

Classical Test Theory — key assumption?

Observed score = True score + Error.

Optimal performance tests — purpose?

Measure maximum ability.

Response formats for typical tests?

Binary choices, ordered categories.

Item difficulty index — what?

Proportion answering correctly.

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