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Merely assembling a batch of questions does not produce a psychological test. A test may best be defined as measuring a standardized sample of human behaviour. As such, it must meet certain basic requirements. First, the sample of behaviour should be both large enough and representative enough of the class of behaviour we are measuring to allow us to generalize and predict from the test results.
Second, by requiring the test to be standardized, we mean that the series of questions or tasks should be uniformly administered whenever subjects are given the test. Finally, all psychological tests must have the prerequisite characteristics of validity, reliability, and norms.
Throwing together a series of questions regardless of whether they concern psychological topics does not elevate them to the level of psychological testing. For example, many newspaper columns and popular books of the parlour-game variety 88 present a series of questions; the person scores the answers and rates himself as “excellent,” “good,” “bad,” or “awful.” These are not psychological tests; they are merely batches of questions.
Second, by requiring the test to be standardized, we mean that the series of questions or tasks should be uniformly administered whenever subjects are given the test. Finally, all psychological tests must have the prerequisite characteristics of validity, reliability, and norms.
Throwing together a series of questions regardless of whether they concern psychological topics does not elevate them to the level of psychological testing. For example, many newspaper columns and popular books of the parlour-game variety 88 present a series of questions; the person scores the answers and rates himself as “excellent,” “good,” “bad,” or “awful.” These are not psychological tests; they are merely batches of questions.
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