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Adapting psychological tests and measurement instruments for cross-cultural research : an introduction / Vladimir Hedrih.
Penn Museum Library BF176 .H44 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hedrih, Vladimir, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychological tests--Cross-cultural studies.
- Psychological tests.
- Ethnopsychology--Methodology.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Cross-cultural studies--Research--Methodology.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Research.
- Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 194 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
- Contents:
- Culture as a concept p. 1
- Culture, language and psychological testing p. 3
- Culture, psychological constructs, emics and etics p. 7
- Dimensions of cultural differences p. 12
- 2 Copyright and author's rights p. 21
- Basic concepts - author, copyright and authors rights p. 21
- Author's rights and copyright p. 22
- Violations of copyright p. 26
- Copyright and psychological tests p. 39
- 3 Test adaptation p. 48
- Test adaptation standards today p. 62
- Why is a translation not enough? Factors influencing the equivalent functioning of tests p. 66
- Basic procedures for adapting tests p. 81
- 4 Assessing equivalence of different language versions of a test p. 99
- Differential test and item functioning and measurement invariance p. 99
- Assessing sources of compromised measurement equivalence before starting the empirical collection of data on the equivalence p. 104
- Data collection designs for the empirical evaluation of the equivalence of the two language versions of a test p. 106
- Making inferences about test equivalence based on empirical data - equivalence levels p. 111
- Making inferences about test equivalence based on empirical data - statistical procedures p. 124
- Equating tests in the context of cross-cultural adaptation p. 132
- 5 Interpretation of individual results Introduction p. 144
- Approaches to interpretation of individual results p. 145
- Criterion-referenced and norm-referenced approaches to interpreting individual results p. 147
- Dimensional interpretation of individual results vs. profile analysis p. 161
- 6 Rights of test-takers, legal and ethical issues of psychological testing p. 173
- Personal data protection p. 174
- Ethical rules of the psychological profession related to psychological testing, rights of test-takers p. 181.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780367210038
- 0367210037
- 9780367210045
- 0367210045
- OCLC:
- 1139225560
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