CONTENTS:- Preface 1. Trying out and evaluating the teacher-made test. 2. Measuring achievement in the elementary grades. 3. Measuring achievement in the secondary grades. 4. The measurement of capacity: General Intelligence. 5. The measurement of capacity: Special aptitudes. 6. The measurement of personality and adjustment: Self-Report techniques. 7. The Observational techniques. 8. The measurement programme. 9. Using the results of measurement.
DESCRIPTION
Basic to using the results of measurement is the interpretation of scores. A test score is merely a number, devoid of meaning in and by itself. Not until it is related to something does it become meaningful and thus useful. Before we proceed with a discussion of the various uses of test results, it would be well to take another look at a device which facilities interpretation. This is the profile, a graphic method of depicting the results of the testing of individuals and of groups. The profile typically shows the results of an achievement battery such as the Stanford, an aptitude battery such as the differential aptitude tests, or scores on an interest inventory for various occupations such as the strong. Although a profile actually adds nothing to the information give by scores, norms and statistical interpretations, it does facilitate comparisons and interpretations by presenting results graphically and all in one package for a given individual or a group.
