Update on the Decline in the Education and Training in Psychological Measurement and Assessment

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Merenda
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Psychological Measurement ◽  
And Training

An update is presented on the steady decline in the education and training of psychometricians, quantitative psychologists, and personality assessment psychologists in North America.

Comparing and Contrasting Studies of Metrology Education and Training in Europe and North America

NCSLI Measure ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Harris ◽  
Leslie R. Pendrill
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
And Training

scholarly journals Better Integrating Driver Education and Training within a New Graduated Driver Licensing Framework in North America

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Mayhew ◽  
Allan F. Williams ◽  
Robyn Robertson ◽  
Ward Vanlaar
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Driver Education ◽  
Graduated Driver Licensing ◽  
Driver Licensing ◽  
And Training

The Persnickety Pervasiveness of Rating Enhancement in Personality Assessment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Alicia A. Stachowski ◽  
John T. Kulas
Keyword(s):  
Response Bias ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Psychological Measurement ◽  
Shared Sets ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Original Target ◽  
Target Profile ◽  
Do So ◽  
Normative Influences

Abstract. The current paper explores whether self and observer reports of personality are properly viewed through a contrasting lens (as opposed to a more consonant framework). Specifically, we challenge the assumption that self-reports are more susceptible to certain forms of response bias than are informant reports. We do so by examining whether selves and observers are similarly or differently drawn to socially desirable and/or normative influences in personality assessment. Targets rated their own personalities and recommended another person to also do so along shared sets of items diversely contaminated with socially desirable content. The recommended informant then invited a third individual to additionally make ratings of the original target. Profile correlations, analysis of variances (ANOVAs), and simple patterns of agreement/disagreement consistently converged on a strong normative effect paralleling item desirability, with all three rater types exhibiting a tendency to reject socially undesirable descriptors while also endorsing desirable indicators. These tendencies were, in fact, more prominent for informants than they were for self-raters. In their entirety, our results provide a note of caution regarding the strategy of using non-self informants as a comforting comparative benchmark within psychological measurement applications.

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