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Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction To Tests and Measurement, 5/e
Ronald Jay Cohen
Mark Swerdlik

Norms, Correlation, and Inference

Chapter Outline


Norms

Standardization and Norming

Types of Norms

Percentiles

Age norms

Grade norms

National norms

National anchor norms

Subgroup norms

Local norms

Fixed Reference Group Scoring Systems

Norm-Referenced Versus Criterion-Referenced Interpretation

Correlation and Regression

The Concept of Correlation

The Pearson r

The Spearman Rho

Graphic Representations of Correlation

Regression

Multiple regression

Inference from Measurement

Culture and Inference

Meta-analysis

EVERYDAY PSYCHOMETRICS

Good Ol' Norms and the GRE

CLOSE-UP

Almost Everything You May Want to Know About the Development of the Pearson r

SELF-ASSESSMENT