Assessing Psychometric Fitness of Intelligence Tests: Toward Evidence-Based Interpretation Practices

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Assessing Psychometric Fitness of Intelligence Tests: Toward Evidence-Based Interpretation Practices addresses issues and concerns regarding appropriate ethical and scientific underpinnings for the appropriate interpretation of intelligence tests. Ethical test interpretation requires test users to consider the empirical evidence for individual and all test score comparisons and to make appropriate clinical decisions accordingly. This requires test users to have competencies in advanced psychometric principles. The chapters in this edited volume present a variety of topics, including the intersection of ethical principles, test standards, and psychometric properties that guide evidence-based interpretation; surveys of empirical evidence in the literature for qualifying major intelligence test interpretations, and psychological measurement topics that impact psychometric understanding of what current intelligence tests can and cannot do. This critical discussion has implications for basic undergraduate and graduate instruction, as well as supervision in clinical and research applications.

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Gary L. Canivez, PhD is professor of Psychology at Eastern Illinois University and principally involved in the Specialist in School Psychology program. He is senior editor for School Psychology Review and serves on the editorial boards of School Psychology and the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment. Dr. Canivez is the author or coauthor of over 100 peer-reviewed articles. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 5 and 16), a Charter Fellow of the Midwestern Psychological Association, and an elected member of the Society for the Study of School Psychology. His research focuses on psychometric studies of tests of intelligence and psychopathology to help provide evidence necessary to guide evidence-based assessment.
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A. Alexander Beaujean, Nicholas Benson, Gary L. Canivez, Corinne J. Casey, Stefan C. Dombrowski, Ryan L. Farmer, Randy G. Floyd, Gilles Gignac, Samuel Y. Kim, John H. Kranzler, Joseph C. Kush, Ryan J. McGill, Lina Pezzuti, Aristide Saggino, Marco Tommasi, Jonathan Wai, Frank C. Worrell