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... research resources for Psychology students

Psychological Assessment

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
A major clearinghouse on psychological testing, this website links to many useful resources. By the Buros Institute.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
This website contains numerous links on psychological assessment. By the U.S. Department of Education.

Keisey Temperament Sorter II
The most popular test on the internet, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter is inspired by Jung's psychological types. By David Keirsey.

Test Your IQ
This website features intelligence tests (just for fun--validity is not guaranteed). By Lars Sondergaard.

WebGrid II
This is "an implementation for the World Wide Web of George Kelly's repertory grid technique for building conceptual models based on his Personal Construct Psychology (PCP)." By Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw.

Psychometrics

Fundamental Measurement for Psychology"
This paper explores the conceptual origins of psychological measurement. By Benjamin D. Wright.

Statistical Methods for Assessing Agreement Between Two Methods of Clinical Measurement"
This citation classic presents an alternative method to the correlation coefficient for assessing agreement between two measures. By J. Martin Bland and Douglas G. Altman.

Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics
This is a full-length textbook on introductory statistics. By Richard Lowry.

Item Response Theory
This website introduces IRT, including a complete on-line book. By Lawrence M. Rudner.

Item Response Theory Models for Unfolding
IRT models for unfolding are "often appropriate whenever binary or graded disagree-agree responses are obtained in a rating scale format." By James S. Roberts.

Google Web Directory: Psychometrics
This page in the Google web directory links to major websites concerning psychometrics. By Colin Cooper.

Rasch Measurement: Tools and Techniques
This website contains information on Rasch scaling, which "is often misclassified under item response theory." By MESA Psychometric Laboratory.

Rasch Measurement Transactions
Here are full-text articles on Rasch measurement, available on-line. By the Rasch Measurement Special Interest Group (AERA).

Structural Equations Modeling
This website covers an advanced psychometric technique used to study many phenomena in the social sciences. By Ed Rigdon.

Taxometrics
This website on taxometrics--a method for distinguishing types from continua--includes a bibliography and software. By Niels G. Waller, Leslie J. Yonce, and Paul E. Meehl.

Types of Reliability and Validity
This is a self-quiz on the various forms of reliability and validity of psychological tests. By Beatrice Baldwin.

VassarStats
This is a website for statistical computation. By Richard Lowry.