Course Description
Scale construction and methods for assessing psychological constructs of relevance to exercise scientists, such as anxiety, body image, depression, mood, perceived exertion, personality, pain, and self-concept.
Athena Title
Measuring Psychological Constr
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to describe the process by which psychological tests are developed.
- Students will be able to describe acceptable practices for the fair and ethical use of psychological test scores.
- Students will be able to describe methods for minimizing error and bias in psychological tests.
- Students will be able to describe the importance of various types of reliability and validity evidence in evaluating the meaning of psychological test scores.
- Students will be able to describe alternative hypotheses about the meaning of psychological test scores.
- Students will be able to describe the importance of considering the published scientific evidence in evaluating the meaning of psychological test scores.
Topical Outline
- 1. Test development and revision
- 2. Test administration, scoring and norms
- 3. The measurement of written response
- 4. Fairness in testing and test use
- 5. Supporting documents for tests
- 6. Methods for assessing measurement error (reliability)
- 7. Multi-trait multi-method validation
- 8. Construct validation
- 9. Response bias, social desirability and dissimulation
