Measuring the Mind - Conceptual Issues in Contemporary Psychometrics

Informationen zum Autor Denny Borsboom is Assistant Professor of Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam. He has published in Synthese, Applied Psychological Measurement, Psychological Review and Intelligence. Klappentext Denny Borsboom provides an in-depth treatment of the philosophical foundations of widely used measurement models in psychology. Zusammenfassung Denny Borsboom provides an in-depth treatment of the philosophical foundations of widely used measurement models in psychology. Special attention is devoted to the central concept of test validity and future directions to improve the theory and practice of psychological measurement are outlined. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. True scores; 3. Latent variables; 4. Scales; 5. Relations between the models; 6. The concept of validity; References; Index.

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• Authors: Denny Borsboom, Denny (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Borsboom, Borsboom Denny
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2005
• EAN: 9780521844635
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84463-5
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Basic principles; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works