Based on a tremendous increase in the development of psychometric theories in the past decade -- ranging from techniques for criterion-referenced testing to behavioral assessment generalizability and item response theory -- this book offers a summary of core issues. In so doing it provides a comprehensive survey of reliability validity and item analysis from the perspectives of classical true-score model generalizability theory item response theory criterion-referenced testing and behavioral assessment. Related theoretical issues such as item bias equating and cut-score determination are also discussed. This is an excellent text for courses in statistics research methods behavioral medicine and cognitive science as well as educational school experimental counseling/social clinical developmental and personality psychology. . Language: English