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Intelligence Tests and the Subjectivity of Results

intelligence is not a singular definable trait, but that intelligence as a whole can only be understood and measured in specific c...

Herzberg Motivation Theory

absence of satisfaction of these influences would lead to dissatisfaction. However, where there were satisfied this would not auto...

Nonparametric Testing and ANOVA

that are certain to be useful in statistically assessing complex scenarios in which variance between more than two factors must be...

Developing Psychological Assessments

insofar as Dr. Zak left the questionnaires at each residence and residents did or did not complete the form through their own voli...

Lesson Plans: A Functional Critique and Assessment

creation and implementation of effective lesson plans. A huge number of studies indicate that "direct instruction" in the style of...

Personality Tests - Their Limited Value

tests in order to assess the potential compatibility of employees that they are considering hiring. However, there is little, if a...

Hypothesis Testing and its Applications

is "statistically significant" or likely to occur by chance. For example, even if treatment A outperforms treatment B in the major...

Use of Statistics

there are two degrees of freedom, so using the table below we can see we need to reject the null hypothesis, with an Alpha of 0.00...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

Exploring the Legality and Ethics of Drug Screening at Work

Literature Review George (1997) performed an analysis of 1617 specimens collected from drug screening from 82 separate work...

Testing Inventory and Cash Process in an Audit

a secure location, but observations may indicate this is not always the case. In addition to this observation, such as the scannin...

Self-Analysis of Automatic Attidudes

unacceptable to have negative attitudes towards different groups of people, e.g., different races. Despite the publicity and even ...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

WISC IV

The WISC was first released in 1949 as a downward extension of the adult IQ test. Wechsler revised it in 1974 and it has been revi...

Canadian Drug Testing in the Workplace

Employers in Canada face legislative restrictions concerning their abilities to test employees for drugs. This foundation level p...

Using a T-Test to Assess Data

The paper uses descriptive statistics and shows the use of hypothesis testing utilizing a two tailed t-test. The data provided ar...

The Centralist Political Philosophy of Barack Obama: "Useful Fictions"

This 4 page paper provides an overview of Barack Obama's political philosophy and its orientation in centralism. The primary thesi...

Income Inequality and the American Dream: A Loss of Opportunities

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Howard Brick's critique of the American Dream and its inaccessibility in the 21st centur...

Are IQ Tests Useful

The most controversial construct in psychology is intelligence and is complementary practice, intelligence testing. This essay pro...

Research Design in Standardized Testing

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. Program evaluation is used to examine the efficacy of standar...

Take Charge, Take the Test, A CDC Campaign

This research paper describes and evaluates the CDC's "Take Charge, Take the Test," which is a campaign targeted at African Americ...

Statistical Assessment of Team Performance and Coaches Salaries

A correctional analysis is undertaken in order to test whether or not there is a correlation between basketball coaches salaries a...

Correlations, ANOVA, and T-Tests

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at various statistical tests of significance. T-tests, ANOVA, and correlational statis...

Psychological Testing - How to Acquire Information

Additionally, within the realm of books written on the topic of psychological tests, it is considered particularly rich, and to ha...

The Construction of Psychological Tests

test development is the factor analysis method. In this method, one identifies the "dimensions underlying a large number of observ...

Laws and Ethics of Testing

(2) informed consent is implied because testing is conducted as a routine educational, institutional or organizational activity" (...

Psychometric Testing

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at psychometric testing. Testing concepts are examined through discussion questions. Pa...

Standardized Testing Criticisms

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at standardized testing. A favorable position is taken towards the use of such tests. P...

The SBQ-R and its Validity

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the SBQ-R psychological test. Drawing upon a review of literature, the validity of ...

Correlation, ANOVA, and T-Tests

is 24 hours. Hypothesis testing will be highly useful for performing this comparison. The first step of statistical hypothesis te...