Psychological Measurement

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The objective of this class is for you to develop broad conceptual knowledge, as well as specific concrete skills, when developing, analyzing and interpreting psychological measures and the data that come from them. We will learn through in-depth discussion and hands-on applications: e.g., exploring the purpose and meaning of measurement, taking a wide range of actual measures, analyzing measurement data in a variety of different ways. Overall, you will learn from this class whether a measure/test is measuring what we think it should, on the basis of reliability, validity, and fairness.