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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Lorna Peters
OUA Tutor, Lecturer
Natasha Todorov
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(PSY248 or PSYU2248 or PSYX248 or PSYX2248) and (10cp at 2000 of PSY or PSYU or PSYX units)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit is concerned with the assessment of individual differences in intelligence and personality through the use of appropriate psychological tests. Important principles of psychological measurement and assessment are covered, including: standardisation, norms, reliability, test development and validation. The practical program emphasises test development and test administration; scoring and interpretation; and highlights current issues in the use and interpretation of tests.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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Assessment in PSYX3332 is made up of a Midsession Exam, a Written Report, and the Final Exam.
All assessment times and other times in this unit BEFORE 5 April 2020 are GMT+11 (AEDT, Australian Eastern Daylight Time, SYDNEY) and AFTER 6 April 2020 are GMT+10 (AEST, Australian Eastern Standard Time, SYDNEY).
An online midsession exam will be conducted in week 7 (Tuesday 7th April). The online exam will be delivered via an iLearn quiz that will be made available for a 24 hour period (12am until 11.59pm). Within that 24 hour period, once the quiz has been started, students will have 40 minutes to complete 20 multiple choice quiz questions (some involving calculation). Students must start the exam by 11.19pm at the latest in order to have the full 40-minutes to complete the exam.
The midsession exam will test students’ ability to apply and analyse the statistics introduced in the lectures in weeks 2 – 5. Students will not be required to recall formulae – a sheet containing formulae will be provided. Questions will require students to use data to generate the statistics and to use the results of their calculations to make judgements about tests. Different question sets will be generated for students to reduce the chance that students can copy directly from one another. Worked examples of the sorts of questions asked on the test will be demonstrated in the lectures. Students will be provided with their mark via the iLearn page for the unit after the exam closes.
A written report (maximum 1500 words), in APA format, will be due by close of business (5pm) on Tuesday 28th April. Students should submit their assignment via Turnitin on the iLearn webpage for the Unit. Feedback on the report will be returned via iLearn at the end of week 12.
The report will be based on Practical 1 and 2 and will report on the construction and psychometric properties of a brief test developed in the practical exercises. The requirements of the assignment will be covered in a recorded lecture made available via iLearn by the end of Week 6. Students will be able to self-assess their performance prior to submission of the assignment against the criteria which will be used by the tutors marking the assignment and will be available via the iLearn webpage for the unit prior to the submission date. Feedback will be provided relative to those criteria. A penalty will be applied for going over the word limit of 1500 words: 5% of the maximum assignment mark (i.e., 35/100) for every 100 words written over the word limit. For example, if the assignment is 100-199 words over the word limit, 1.75 marks out of 35 will be deducted; if the assignment is 200-299 words over the word limit, 3.5 marks out of 35 will be deducted etc. The word limit excludes the title page, tables and figures, and References pages.
During the final exam period, students will complete a 1.5-hour multiple choice exam (60 questions) which will assess recall, understanding, and application of material presented in lectures 8 to 12 inclusive and in practicals 3 to 6 inclusive, as well as any required readings associated with those lectures and practicals. Information about the invigilated exam procedure will be provided by OUA (see https://www.mq.edu.au/study/other-study-options/open-universities-australia for information).
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PSYX3332 is delivered as an online unit via Open Universities Australia (OUA). Please read this Unit Guide in conjunction with information provided about studying a Macquarie University unit via OUA at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/other-study-options/open-universities-australia.
There is one 2-hour lecture each week of the session, apart from weeks 7 and 13. Students can listen to the live stream or recording of the lecture available via the link on the iLearn page to Echo360.
Readings associated with lectures will be listed in the lecture outlines posted on iLearn and most will be made available via Unit Readings on the Library webpage.
All lecture material is examinable (either in the midsession exam or in the final exam).
There are six practicals to be completed over a two-week period commencing in week 2 of session. Set reading will be required prior to some practicals - the readings will be listed in the practical sections on iLearn and made available via Unit Readings on the Library webpage.
All practical material is assessable (either in the assignment or in the final exam).
Any recent text on Psychological Testing or Psychological Assessment will more than likely cover the main content of the unit. The text recommended for the unit in 2020 is:
Shum, D., O'Gorman, J., Mors, B., & Creed, P. (2017). Psychological Testing and Assessment (Third Edition). Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press.
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Lectures |
Practicals |
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25/2/20: Unit information – objectives, assessment, organization Introduction to psychological assessment. Overview of types of tests. (Peters) |
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3/3/20: Test scores. Norms. Reliability: Types; Sources of error; Methods of calculating (Peters) |
Practical 1: Test construction (the assignment is based on this practical) |
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10/3/20: Reliability: Reliability and standard error of measurement; worked examples Validity: Types; Methods of determining validity Relationship between reliability and validity (Peters) |
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4 |
17/3/20: Test Construction (Peters) |
Practical 2: Analysis of test data (the assignment is based on this practical also) |
5 |
24/3/20: Item Response Theory (Baillie; recorded lecture only; no livestream)
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6 |
31/3/20: Revision for the midsession exam (Peters) Assignment requirements (Peters: recorded lecture available via iLearn by the end of week 6) |
Practical 3: Test fairness, test bias and testing special groups |
7 |
MIDSESSION EXAM No lecture this week |
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Midsession Break |
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8 |
28/4/20 Ethical issues in the use of psychological assessment (Peters; recorded lecture only; no livestream) |
Practical 4: IQ testing with the Wechsler tests |
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5/5/20: Assessment of Intelligence: Theoretical Issues (Todorov) |
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10 |
12/5/20: Assessment of Intelligence: Clinical Issues (Todorov) |
Practical 5: Current Issues in IQ Testing |
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19/5/20: Personality Assessment: Self-report Inventories (Peters) |
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12 |
26/5/20: Personality Assessment: other techniques (Peters) |
Practical 6: Personality test administration, scoring and interpretation |
13 |
2/6/20: No lecture this week |
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