Measuring the Mind: Precapstone in Psychometrics

Psychometrics is just a fancy word for the assessment and measurement of psychological characteristics (skills, abilities, personality traits, knowledge, opinions, preferences, and attitudes).

Political pollsters, survey writers, market researchers, teachers and trainers, and many others do this all the time without knowing they are doing psychometrics or that there is a whole field of theory and evidence-based insights into ways of doing it better.

In this course, we survey the wide field of psychometrics, including principles of measurement, scale development, reliability and validity, and item response theory.