January 2006
Reading assignments refer to chapters in the course text, Psychological Testing (4th Ed.) by Robert J. Gregory 

There will be 3 exams and a final exam, one term paper and a class presentation.

Do the reading BEFORE the Date Scheduled
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Chapter 1

reflex tester
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Overview of scales of measurement
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Chapter 2

Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education

here's a time magazine article on the meritocracy created by IQ testing
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links to possible help in calculating a correlation

calculating with excel

calculating with a calculator


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Chapter 3 Topic A
here's a tutorial page with links on the normal distribution

calculating the area under a normal curve

describing distributions

calculating percentiles

Overview of frequency distributions
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Wooster GPA's

Wooster students' test data
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Chapter 3 - Topic B
make your own scatterplot, chart the regression line and residuals

scatterplots
guessing correlations



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Chapter 4- topic A
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Psychology Indexes and Databases


February 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Chapter 4 - Topic B
Overview of scales of measurement
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Chapter 5 - topic A
Web sources on
human intelligence
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Chapter 5 - topic B
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Here's an  outline of what one paper/presentation would look like for this course
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First Exam
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the exam item data
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Chapter 6 topic A
The Titan test
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Chapter 6 topic B

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Chapter 7 topic A

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Chapter 7 topic B
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Chapter 8 topic A
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March 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Chapter 8 Topic B
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Chapter 9 Topic A
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Chapter 9 Topic B
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Chapter 10 Topic A
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Chapter 10 Topic B
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Second Exam

April 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Chapter 11 Topic  A
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Chapter 11 Topic B
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Chapter 12 topic A
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O*net search center
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Chapter 12 Topic B
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Chapter 13 Topic A
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Chapter 13 Topic B
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16 17Chapter 14 Topic A 18 19 Chapter 14 Topic B 20 21 Chapter 15 topic B 22
23 24 Third Exam
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May 2006
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Paper Due
Class presentations
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Class presentations
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Class presentations
 Last day of Classes		 6
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