Definitions
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- noun The branch of psychology that deals with the design, administration, and interpretation of quantitative tests for the measurement of psychological variables such as intelligence, aptitude, and personality traits.
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- noun psychology The
design ofpsychological tests tomeasure intelligence ,aptitude andpersonality ; and theanalysis andinterpretation of their results.
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- noun any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements
Etymologies
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Examples
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As far as I know, he is not an expert in psychometrics or genetics.
Thoughts on Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But more than that, the science in "The Bell Curve" is very much in the mainstream of psychometrics, which is to say the kinds of things we say do not push the edge of what is known at any point.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life 1994
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"token-object reading" because of the possible confusion with "psychometrics," which is a branch of psychology.
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But there's no excuse today for limiting psychometrics to 1950s strategies.
Tom Vander Ark: No Excuse for Sucky Items Tom Vander Ark 2011
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Both of these psychometrics are ones I have encountered hardly at all in ELT and consistently in my work outside (for the National School of Government in training senior civil servants and for Bath University School of Management as a tutor on fast track executive MBA programmes).
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She explains why we are having such trouble persuading students to pursue careers in chemistry, psychometrics, physics, biotechnology and related pursuits.
Why science careers, and courses, aren't so popular Jay Mathews 2010
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Google will record and store consumers' purchases as well as analyze reactive psychometrics via patented facial and biometric detection technology at the point of purchase.
Pablo Andreu: Larry Page Takes Google in New Direction Pablo Andreu 2011
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But there's no excuse today for limiting psychometrics to 1950s strategies.
Tom Vander Ark: No Excuse for Sucky Items Tom Vander Ark 2011
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Google will record and store consumers' purchases as well as analyze reactive psychometrics via patented facial and biometric detection technology at the point of purchase.
Pablo Andreu: Larry Page Takes Google in New Direction Pablo Andreu 2011
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The main difference between our programs and others is that ours is based on an interest inventory (the process outlined above) rather than on psychometrics.
born2badored commented on the word psychometrics
never tell me how you feal
December 6, 2006
dgg1107 commented on the word psychometrics
Pyschometrics is used with the hypotheses testing academic research using especially quantitative analysis of survey correlations with post-positive epistemology.
June 20, 2009