Preparation Strategies and Tips for the Psychometrician Licensure Exam

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We tweaked this blog post to make it more applicable for those taking the psychometrician licensure exam here in the Philippines. The text  was adapted and quoted from the Preparation Strategies and Tips from the book EPPP fundamentals: review for the examination for professional practice in psychology authored by Walter Penk and Dolores K. Little. The material was provided to us by our friend from the police force or Philippine National Police (PNP).

Preparing for the Board Licensure Examination for Psychologist and Psychometrician (BLEPP) is

the most exciting and a challenging licensure exam to be given for the first this October 2014 for those aspiring to become licensed psychometricians and psychologists. 

Here are some techniques and strategies to consider.

Deliberate Practice Theory

It is not clear that deliberate practice theory, or the 10,000-hour practice rule (the amount of time it takes to become a world class expert), applies as much to psychologists as it does to expert musicians or other scientific thinkers (Ericsson, Krampe, & Tesch-Romer, 1993). Taking the board exam requires hard work in order to pass. Research shows that approximately 400 hours is generally sufficient when preparing for an exam but for others it might be doubled or trippled.

Getting Grit

It is also the time for grit, to access within one’s self and to promote one’s grit, defined as the personal characteristics of perseverance and passion for the longterm goal of becoming a psychometrician or psychologist (Duckworth, Kirby, Tsukayama, Berstein, & Ericsson, 2011). Psychology is both a profession and a science and it develops on case studies followed by randomized clinical trials, results from which must be learned and then applied.

Taking the board exam is a time when one stands alone, outside the care and comfort of one’s college, beyond facilities where one was trained to practice. It is an exercise where one has to prove and demonstrate what were learned and be qualified to be called a psychometrician.So it is a time to let go of your anxiety and worries and trust in your studies and abilities.

Test-Taking Strategies

In the PRC's NOA, among the prohibited acts include  "4. Taking out of the examination room any questions used in the examination, copying, and or divulging or making known the nature or content of any examination question or answer to any individual or entity. When you are through with the examination, return unused answer sheets or any other test materials furnished you by the Room Watcher." Whether the said act is applicable only during the exam day is to be clarified. Definitely the Code of Ethics for Philippine Psychologists does not contain provision regarding the licensure exam, but for psychology graduates they are expected to respect and observe certain ethics like test security, non-disclosure and the like so as to maintain the control and quality of the test.  

Reviewees can access “test-taking strategies videos” on Google or YouTube and relearn previous
skills for answering multiple-choice items like, eliminating wrong answers, solving easy items first, coping with tricky words, coping with “all” or “none” answers, and setting a comfortable pace. And we have posted this http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2014/08/taking-multiple-choice-exams-strategy.html before to serve as guide.


Distribute Your Learning

Test-taking strategies require that you constantly improve your skills for learning. Cramming for the EPPP, indeed, will yield some positive results. However, what you learn fast, you forget quickly. Psychology is a marathon, not a walk around the block.

Research by such psychologists as Henry L. Roediger III has demonstrated that we remember more of what we learn when we distribute our learning over time and learn by frequently self-testing ourselves about the content that we are learning (e.g., Roediger & Butler, 2011; 2012 award address at www.psycho

logicalscience.org/convention/videos). 

We must go beyond rereading, summarizing, outlining, and highlighting. Rather, we must also repeatedly test ourselves on the materials we are learning and the results and outcomes from what we practice.This principle, validated now by Roediger and others, is as old as psychology itself, for as William James taught us long ago, in Principles of Psychology, paraphrasing James: it is better to recollect from within than to look at a book again.

Updating observations by James from his time of books and journals to our time of the Internet and Apps, we improve our performance when we increase testing ourselves about the new materials we have just learned (Roediger, 2013). Our mastery of self-testing to improve working memory is just as important for

each one of us to do as it is for us to facilitate performances of others whom we may be training by teaching them to test themselves. Learning is testing (Simonton, 2008; Tsay & Nanaji, 2011). 

And the wisdom about learning required by preparing for the licensure exam is confirmed by recent reviews

about learning techniques that are effective (e.g., Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh,Nathan, & Willingham, 2013). As noted by Roediger (2013), cognitive and educational psychology are demonstrating that learning to test ourselves has been empirically validated as effective for learning, along with other approaches; for

example, distributed practice on tasks (not massed practice), the aforementioned retrieval practice (or testing), interweaved practice (i.e., interweaving topics while learning), elaborative interrogation (i.e., asking why information is true), and self-explanation (i.e., explaining information to one’s self).

Exercise the Body and the Mind

Prior to taking the board exam, one should exercise both body and mind. Taking the exam is likely to be improved when you yourself have mastered relaxation and meditation, when you yourself are exercising and practicing positive nutrition. Such mastery of mind and body is essential, because psychology is a field that

confronts and copes with stress. 

Psychology is a discipline in which clinicians vicariously experience stress and trauma when providing services for clients who have been stressed and traumatized. Exercise and meditation not only facilitate organization in coping with personal feelings, emotions, and thoughts, but likewise improve relationships with others. As a consequence, when preparing for the board exam, make effort to improve performance by balancing reading and reviewing with exercising and meditation. Preparing for the board exam is a matter of organizing one’s life around the age old principle of balancing time to create a sound body and sound mind. One should confront the exam well rested and relaxed.

(Interested in meditation check this site - http://www.brahmakumaris.org/philippines )

Reading Books and Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Internet Age

NO harm in reading journals to reinforce knowledge. And it should become a habit after passing the licensure exam to keep abreast with new developments in the field of Psychological Assessment. Maximize the internet for online resources both for text, videos and other multimedia resources (slides, ppt, audio recordings, etc).

Learning With Peers and Others

It is important that you form social groups, not just of supervisors but also peers, from whom to learn, not just facts, but categories of principles to practice. Training and having work experience related to the exam will be useful. Still there are professionals whom you can interact with and get coaching and mentoring. It will be ideal to form groups  of other examinees to study together; to develop tests taking abilities;  to improve

working memory; and to practice transferring principles of psychology from one kind of discipline to another and from one person to another. Peers are necessary to  corroborate acquired information and learning, as well as feedback from others. 

So let us all learn together through our FB page and this blog.


Persevere Until You Pass

A useful test-taking strategy, that you can accomplish at the outset, is agree to keep taking the licensure exam until you pass, the law is silent about the number of times you can take the exam. That means, from the beginning, that you plan for the worst possible outcome—not passing (although the statistics are definitely in your favor for passing the first time). You prepare by learning at the outset what you will do if you do not pass. From the beginning, you create your own personal support services from peers and supervisors. You obtain all the feedback you are able to amass. You constantly test with peers, supervisors, and clients the new skills you are learning.

Your main test-taking strategy is that you will persevere until you pass.




May the odds be ever in your favor.... May the source be with you... Kita-kits sa Oath Taking!




Source:

Klee, Anne S.
EPPP fundamentals : review for the examination for professional practice in psychology /
Anne S. Klee & Bret A. Moore. Springer, 2014.



Related Links:

http://iheartpsych.blogspot.com/2014/07/study-tips-for-board-exams.html

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2014/08/taking-multiple-choice-exams-strategy.html

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2014/09/general-instruction-to-examinees-found.html

Guide Notes on Henry Murray: Theory of Personology

Essential Points About Henry Murray

Personality is located in the brain “No brain, No personality.”

From a Psychoanalytic Perspective Murray used the term personology to describe his study of human lives and individual differences in personality. He described a habit system as automatic, unconscious behaviors shaped by the id, ego, and superego. Murray emphasized positive instincts related to motivation and needs.

His theory of personality is based upon needs and motives that suggest our personalities are a reflection of behaviors controlled by needs. While some needs are temporary and changing, other needs are more deeply seated in our nature. According to Murray, these psychogenic needs function mostly on the unconscious level, but play a major role in our personality.

1) Murray was influenced by Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory although made his own distinction of  id and superego.

2) Importance of genetic and maturational factors in the stages of development of personality: a) childhood-adolescence-young adulthood, b) middle years, and c) senescence (final era).

3) Complex - effects of infantile experiences upon later behavior are clear and extensive. The five complexes are: a) claustral complexes, b) oral complex,  c) anal complex, d) urethral complex, e) genital or castration complex.

4) Need is a construct (a convenient or hypothetical concept) which stands free for a force. In the brain region, a force which organizes perception, apperception, intellection, conation and action in such a way as to transform in a certain direction existing, unsatisfying situation.

5) 5 different types of needs: a) Primary (viscerogenic needs) and Secondary Need (psychogenic needs),   b) Overt (motor) and Covert (fantasy/dreams) Needs, c) Focal and Diffuse Needs - anything related to the environmental objects - if it is unsuitable (fixation) - considered pathological, d) Proactive and Reactive Needs - from within - kinetic/response to environmental event e) Modal needs and effect needs - doing something with a certain degree of quality and excellence/lead to a desired state or end.

6) Press - environmental force that interacts with needs to determine behavior. Two kinds of press - alpha (objective) press and beta (perceived) press.

7) Thema - molar and interactive behavior unit - involves press and the need that is operating.

8) Strengths

• promoted interest in psychoanalytic theory among academic psychologist
• emphasized on the importance of the past and present context within which behavior takes place
• intensive study of small numbers of normal people

9) Weaknesses

• critics think his theory is borad
• his skill at taxonomy creating fine distinctions and detailed classifications made his studies unecessarily complex
• his writing and research not trendy at this current time

10) Trivia:

a) Had an affair (since he refused to leave wife Josephine Rantaul) with Christiana Morgan - co-author of TAT.

b) In 1943 Murray helped complete Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler (predicted Hitler would

choose suicide if Germany is defeated and that Hitler had participated in a homosexual relationship).

c)Then 16-year-old Ted Kaczynski, participated in Murray's ethically questionable, CIA-sponsored MK ULTRA experiments in which twenty-two undergraduates were used as guinea pigs. Kaczynski who went on to become the Unabomber, a serial killer targeting academics and technologists.

d) Murray was a leading authority on the works of American author Herman Melville (Moby Dick) and

amassed  a collection of books, manuscripts and artifacts relating to Melville. At his death he was

preparing a book tentatively titled ''A Melville Mosaic: Morsels from the Unpublished Biography.''

Henry murray from Lo-Ann Placido

Sources, References and Related Links:

Personality, D. Limpingco and G. Tria, 3e

http://www.slideshare.net/loannplacido/henry-murray

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/obituaries/henry-a-murray-is-dead-at-95-developer-of-personality-theory.html

http://www.psych.westminster.edu/psy311/murray_files/frame.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Murray

http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/psychogenic.htm

http://allpsych.com/personalitysynopsis/murray.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray's_system_of_needs

http://allpsych.com/personalitysynopsis/murray.html

Guide Notes on George Kelly: Personal Construct Psychology

Essential Points About George Kelly

(These essential points serve as summary or an overview on the Personality Theory of George Kelly. Readers are advised to read more in order to have a deeper appreciation and understanding of his theory. Wikipedia and materials available online were used as reference as well as textbooks for these essential points.)

His theory can be considered as phenomenological - studies focused on subjective experience; cognitive since it deals with mental events;  existential because of his emphasis on the future and the capacity to select one's own destiny; humanistic because it recognizes an individual's creative abilities directed at solving personal or sociological problems. For Kelly personality is adaptive and unique. In his work the influence of learning and culture was not emphasized but recognizes them as important in the growth, development and refinement of the personal construct system.

1) Constructive alternativism is the idea that, while there is only one true reality, reality is always experienced from one or another perspective, or alternative construction. There are always different ways to interpret or give meaning to any event everyone is capable of reconstruing events. Constructs provide a certain order, clarity, and prediction to a persons world.

2) Constructs are bipolar categories, the way two things are alike and different from a third, that people employ to understand the world.  A construct always implies contrast. (Ex. attractive-ugly, intelligent-stupid, kind-cruel)

Source - http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/kelly.html

3) Fundamental postulate: A person's processes are psychologically channelized by the way in which he anticipates events.

4) There are 11 supporting corollaries for the basic postulate:  (1) construction corollary, (2) individuality corollary, (3) organizational corollary, (4) dichotomy corollary,  (5) choice corollary,  (6) range corollary,  (7) experience corollary, (8) modulation corollary, (9) fragmentation corollary, (10) commonality corollary, (11) sociality corollary

5) Transitional periods in a person's life occur when he or she encounters a situation that changes his or her naive theory (or system of construction) of the way the world is ordered. They can create anxiety, hostility, and/or guilt and can also be opportunities to change one's constructs and the way one views the world.

• Anxiety develops when a person encounters a situation that his or her construct system does not cover, an event unlike any he or she has encountered.
• Guilt is dislodgment from one's core constructs. 
• Hostility is "attempting to extort confirmation of a social prediction that is already failing.

6) Personal construct psychology (PCP) is a theory of personality and cognition. Kelly derived a psychotherapy approach and also a technique called The Repertory Grid Interview that helped his patients to uncover their own "constructs" (ways of seeing the world) with minimal intervention or interpretation by the therapist.

7) Repertory Grid itself is a matrix where the rows represent constructs found, the columns represent the elements, and cells indicate with a number the position of each element within each construct. The Repertory Grid was later adapted for various uses within organizations, including decision-making and interpretation of other people's world-views.

Source - http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/kelly.html

8) Concept of Humanity - optimistic view. On elaborative choice -  people choose alternative that offers greater opportunity, thus in making the present choices, we look ahead and pick the alternative that will increase our range of future choices.

9) Strengths

• empirical evidence of Kelly's Personal Construct Theory relate to his approaches to assessment and therapy
• client give the best and most information about themselves

10) Weaknesses

• lack or limited empirical basis for identifying personal constructs
• emphasis on logic and rationality - overlooked emotions 

References:

Theories of Personality, by J. Feist and G. Feist, 6 ed, 2006

Personality, by D. Limpingco and G. Tria, 3 ed, 2007

http://arabpsynet.com/journals/ajp/ajp20.1-p66.pdf

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~gaines/pcp/

http://www.centrepcp.co.uk/proconstructs.htm

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/kelly.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_construct_psychology

http://www.enquirewithin.co.nz/theoryof.htm

Last Call for Psychometricians' Registration Without Examination

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This is to alarm those experienced Filipino Pyschometricians (graduate of AB/BS Psychology) both local and abroad who want to be registered and licensed by Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) without examination by availing the grandfather clause of the law RA 10029 to the Psychology Act of 2009. You only have until next year or  21 May 2015, barely 8 months to go from this date, otherwise after period lapse, you will have to take the exam to be licensed.  Below is the process for online application.

Online Application for Registration Without Examination

This facility is for the exclusive use of applicants for registration without examination and is available up to:

• May 21, 2015 - for  Psychometricians and Psychologists 

Please read carefully the entire instructions and information provided below so you will be guided properly on the procedures, requirements and timetables for registration without examination.

1. Before submitting an application for registration without examination, the applicant must:
1. Decide what the application for registration without examination is for (whether for Psychologist or Psychometrician or both, or for Respiratory Therapist). Separate forms and payment will be required for each application.
2. Determine whether applicant satisfies the qualification standards for  Psychometrician and Psychologist.
3. Determine if applicant can satisfy all the documentary requirements within 15 days from the time of online application. The documentary requirements for Psychometrician and Psychologist are provided hereunder:

For Psychometrician 

1. Original and Photocopy of Certificate of Live Birth in NSO security paper for Filipino citizens. In case of a foreign citizen, a copy of the law of the state or country which permits Filipino Psychometricians to practice on the same basis as its subject or citizens, duly authenticated by the Philippine embassy or consulate therein.
2. Original and photocopy of Marriage Certificate in NSO security paper (for married female only)
3. Original and photocopy of Transcript of Records for Bachelor's Degree in Psychology (AB/BS) with scanned picture. Special Order Number must be indicated. Where school is exempted from the issuance of an SO, a certificate of authentication and validation (CAV) must be secured from CHED.
4. Original certificate of full-time work experience as a Psychometrician or full time work engagement in the practice of psychometrics for a minimum of 2 years, either from immediate superior (if employed) or from institutional clients, professional partners/colleagues (if on private practice), specifying the nature of work, duly sworn in and notarized under oath. Official job description must be attached.
5. Original and photocopy of valid NBI Clearance; plus Clearance from the Ombudsman for those in government service.
6. Three (3) original Certificates of Good Moral Character, from any of the following: school/former professor, employer, church, and/or Barangay Captain duly signed by issuing authority and notarized under oath
7. Two (2) colored passport-size pictures with white background and complete name tag
8. Photocopy of Community Tax Certificate

• NOTE: For applicants working abroad, the required documents must be certified by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office near the place of work. 

For Psychologist

1. Original and Photocopy of Certificate of Live Birth in NSO Security Paper for Filipino citizens. In case of a foreign citizen, a copy of the law of the state or country which permits Filipino Psychologists to practice on the same basis as its subject or citizens, duly authenticated by the Philippine embassy or consulate therein.
2. Original and photocopy of Marriage Certificate in NSO security paper (for married female only)
3. Original and photocopy of Transcript of Records with scanned picture and with the Special Order Number indicated (for both undergraduate and graduate degrees). Where school is exempted from the issuance of an SO, a certificate of authentication and validation (CAV) must be secured from CHED.
4. For those who do not have a master's degree, a certified true copy of of at least 100 hours of updating seminars and workshops attended from June 2005 to June 2010 must be presented/submitted
5. Original Certificates of Practice/Work Experience(s):
   
   1. Certificate of Employment from immediate superior duly noted by either the HR Manager or Employer specifying the position title, nature of work and specific period of employment duly sworn in by the issuing authorities. Official Job Description signed by the HR Manager must be attached, and for government employees, the official service record specifying the position item must also be submitted.
   2. For those who are self-employed, applicant must submit the following:
      
      1. Certificate of private practice from colleagues, professional partners and/or institutional clients, specifying the nature of work/services rendered and the duration thereof, duly sworn in and notarized under oath
      2. Work contract(s), if any, and/or sworn in statement of the practitioner specifying the nature, scope and duration of project engagement or services rendered, and the regularity of service-delivery with the undertaking that documentary evidence will be produced when required by the Board
      3. Business permit and DTI registration
6. Three (3) Original Certificates of Good Moral Character from any of the following: school, employer, church, and/or Barangay Captain duly signed by issuing authority and notarized under oath
7. Original Certificate of Mental Health or Mental Fitness from a Psychiatrist or from a Registered/Certified Clinical Psychologist, duly signed and notarized under oath
8. Original and photocopy of valid NBI Clearance plus Ombudsman clearance for government employees
9. Two (2) colored passport-size picture with white background and complete name tag
10. Photocopy of Community Tax Certificate

• NOTE: For applicants working abroad, the required documents must be certified by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office near the place of work. 

1.  (Above text)
2. As soon as applicant has ascertained (1) which registration without examination to apply for (as Psychologist, Psychometrician or both); (2) that he/she satisfies the qualification requirements; and (3) can satisfy all the documentary requirements within the time stated, the applicant is ready to proceed to submit his/her application online.
3. After receiving an acknowledgement through applicant's email that the application for registration without examination has been submitted successfully together with an order form for payment, applicant must follow the steps hereunder:

1. On the assigned date, applicant must go to the Customer Service Center of the nearest PRC office and secure one (1) P15 metered documentary stamp. Affix the documentary stamp on the space provided in the application form, sign it and indicate the date when the application form was accomplished. Applicant can then proceed to the cashier's window for the payment of the application/processing fee (P900.00 for each application to be processed).
2. Submit a copy of the official receipt (OR) evidencing payment together with the duly accomplished application form and documents to:
   
   
   • For Psychologist and Psychometrician - Window 12, Application Division at the Ground Floor of PRC Main Building
   • PRC Regional Offices
   
   Submit all required documents in a clear book with the confirmation number and official notice of submission from the PRB on the first page, a table of contents on the second, the printed application form on the third page, and the rest of the documents in subsequent pages arranged according to the list provided.
   
   The application processor will conduct an initial screening of the application documents and should inform the applicant of any deficiency at this time. Applicant should receive a claim stub after initial screening is done.
3. After receipt by PRC of applicant's documents, he/she should wait for official notification from PRC through his/her email account. Applicant is also advised to check the PRC website regularly to check whether the application has been approved or call tel. no. 3101018 to inquire about the status of application.

(Source -  http://www.prc.gov.ph/online/applicationwithoutexam/)

For more information: 

Central Office/General Inquiries
P. Paredes St. cor. Morayta St.
Sampaloc, Manila
Tel. (632) 3100026
Telefax (632) 7354476

Application for Examination
(632) 7362252

Application for Registration & Licensing without Examination

(632) 7351533


Contact Info of PRC Officials - http://www.prc.gov.ph/about/?id=7

General Instruction to Examinees found in your NOA

Back of the NOA.

Check and do not ignore the back part of your Notice of Admission (NOA). Below are important instructions that should be observed at all times during the examination. A similar instruction will be reiterated once the program of licensure exam for Psychometrician will be out containing the schedule/date/time and particular subjects that will be taken up on 28-29 October 2014.

General Instruction to Examinees 

1. Bring this Notice of Admission (NOA) every examination day.


2. Attend to your personal needs before the start of examination in every subject. No examinee will be allowed  to go out of the examination room while the examination is in progress.

3. Stop answering the test questions at the end of the time allotted for the subject. Arrange your test papers as follows:
            a) Notice of Admission
            b) Answer Sheet
            c) Test Questionnaire

4. Do not leave the room until:
            a)  your test papers are received by the Room Watcher,
            b) you have signed, indicated the time and set (A or B) on the Examinees Record of Attendance 
            c) the lower portion of your Notice of Admission (Certification on the Receipt of Test Papers) is
                signed by the Room Watcher and returned to you.

Front and bottom part of the NOA.

Prohibited Acts

1. Accepting or receiving anything, including food from any person while the examination is in progress.

2. Giving money, food, or any favor and other consideration to the Room Watchers and other examination personnel.

3.  Loitering, talking, or discussing your answers inside the room or along the corridor while the exam is in progress.

4. Taking out of the examination room any questions used in the examination, copying, and or divulging or making known the nature or content of any examination question or answer to any individual or entity. When you are through with the examination, return unused answer sheets or any other test materials furnished you by the Room Watcher.

5. Copying or referring to any solution, answer or work of another examinee or allowing anyone to copy or refer to your work, helping or asking help from any person or communicating with anyone by means of words, signs, gestures, codes and other similar acts which may enable you to change, impart or acquire relevant information.

6.  Bringing inside the examination rooms the following: books, notes, review materials and other printed materials containing principles or excerpts thereof, coded data/information/formula which are relevant to or connected with the examination subject, programmable calculators, cellular phones, beepers, portable computers or other similar gadgets/devices. The act shall be considered cheating and/or act of dishonesty and shall be a ground for the cancellation of your examination papers and suspension or debarment from future licensure examinations. (PRC Resolution No. 463 dated November 27, 1995).

Maintain discipline at all times. Any misconduct or irregularity on your part or any violation of the examination rules and regulations and instructions 

will be sufficient cause for the cancellation of your examination papers and your debarment from 

taking any future licensure examination.

What to bring:

• NOA (Notice of Admission)
• PRC Official Receipt
• Pencils No. 1 or 2 
• Ballpens (Black ink only)
• 1 pc Window Mailing Envelope with Metered postage stamp
• 1 pc Long Brown Envelope
• 1 pc Long Transparent (Non-colored) Plastic Envelope    

Reference Textbooks for the Psychometrician Licensure Exam

We continue to received question about our references or textbook. So we are posting here our references. Check related posts below should you want to know more about some of  the details of textbooks/references here.

Well - wikipedia remains the number one reference and resource aside from these textbooks and the whole- wide-web. And aside from text - you can check you tube for video lectures on these topics.

Some of these books - even the hardbound were purchased on sale from different bookstores, BOOKSALE, and secondhand shops of Recto. 

References

(We got the AP Psych books since we do not know yet the exam and to

refresh ourselves with Psychology principles and  two version of dictionaries.)

Psychological Testing

(More books on Psychological Testing since we consider the subject more formidable and per TOS it

will have 150 more items compared the other tests.) 

 Theories of Personality

(Only few titles since there's an abundance of  materials and resources on the internet.)

Industrial  Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

(We read Psychiatry and Psychiatric nursing for the psychological cases.)

Related posts:

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2014/08/psychology-textbooks-for.html

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2013/08/psychological-testing-textbooks.html

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2013/07/reference-textbook-for-abnormal.html
http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2013/08/abnormal-psychology-textbook-by-jane-q.html

http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2013/07/theories-of-personality-reference.html
http://psychometricpinas.blogspot.com/2013/08/textbook-on-personality-by-limpingco.html

Printed References for Published Psychological Tests

From the FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests of American Psychological Association website - http://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/find-tests.aspx?item=2

The four most popular, useful and easy to locate printed references for published tests are TIP, MMY, Tests and Test Critiques. The following is a brief summary of these references.

• Tests in Print (TIP) Publisher: The Buros Institute for Mental Measurements, Lincoln, NE. Most current volume: 7th ed. (2006).

What information is here? TIP is a bibliographic encyclopedia of information on every published (and commercially available) test in psychology and achievement. Each entry consists of the test title, intended population, publication date, acronym (if applicable), author, publisher, foreign adaptations and references. There are no critical reviews or psychometric information on the tests; detailed information on individual tests is available in other reference books such as MMY or Test Critiques. TIP was created to serve as a master index to the whole Buros Institute reference series on tests, including the 15 MMYs and the monograph series.

What tests are included? The only criterion for inclusion is that the test be in print and available for purchase or use. So TIP covers a wide range of tests across psychology, education and achievement.

How do I use it? Tests are listed alphabetically, within subjects. However, if you know a test title, you can flip to an alphabetical index to find it. There are five indexes: test title, classified subject, publisher, name (of authors, reviewers) and a publishers' directory. These five indexes are handy for locating tests by means other than the title or for accessing whole groups of tests for making comparisons (e.g., all tests tapping vocational interests). After you have located a test that interests you, turn to the MMY for more detailed information on that test, or use the directory of publishers to contact the test publisher for more information.

• Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) Publisher: The Buros Institute for Mental Measurements, Lincoln, NE. Most current edition: 17th ed. (2007).

What information is here? In the MMY, tests are listed alphabetically by title. Each entry provides descriptive information, such as the test name, intended population, publication dates, forms and prices, test author and publisher. It also contains additional information on the extent to which reliability, validity, norming data, scoring and reporting services, and foreign language versions are available. Most entries also include one or more reviews of the test and testing materials (e.g., manuals) by qualified psychologists.

What tests are included? The criteria for inclusion in the MMY are that the test be new or revised since the previous yearbook and that the publisher provide documentation supporting the technical qualities of the test.

How do I use it? The introduction contains step-by-step directions for using the text to locate testing information. If you know the test title, you can look it up directly through the alphabetical listings. The seven indexes arrange tests by title, print status (in or out), acronym, classified subject, publisher, name (author, reviewer) and score. These can be used to access tests about which you have limited information or to access groups of tests that fit into the same category (e.g., yield the same score or are all measuring stress).

• Tests Publisher: Pro-Ed, Inc., Austin, TX. Most current edition: 6th ed. (2008).

What information is here? Tests, like TIP, is a bibliographic encyclopedia containing information on thousands of testing instruments in psychology, education, and business. It provides concise descriptions of tests, with each entry including the test title and author, the intended population, the tests purpose, the major features, the administration time, the scoring method, the cost and availability, and the primary publisher. Also, a scanning line uses coded visual keys to indicate whether the test is self- or examiner-administered.

Tests does not contain evaluative critiques or data on reliability, validity, or norms; this information can be found for selected instruments in Test Critiques.

What tests are included? Tests was created to provide quick and easy access to all tests available in the English language. Several thousand tests are included from the areas of psychology, education, and business.

How do I use it? The book is divided into three main sections: 'Psychology,' 'Education' and 'Business,' with each of these divided into subsections. Tests are arranged alphabetically within each subsection.

Tests has seven indexes, including the test title index, author index, foreign language availability index, and a publisher/distributor index. Three indexes identify tests suitable for special populations: the hearing impaired, visually impaired, and physically impaired. Finally, there is a listing of out-of-print tests, which shows tests that publishers indicate have recently gone out-of-print. Use these indexes to locate information on a particular test or to access whole groups of tests in your area of interest. A publishers directory, also located in Tests, gives names, addresses and phone numbers of publishers to contact for more information or purchasing inquiries.

• Test Critiques Publisher: Pro-Ed, Inc., Austin, TX. Most current edition: updated annually.

What information is here? This text is designed to be a companion to Tests and contains supplemental information designated as 'not appropriate for inclusion in that directory. This includes psychometric information such as reliability, validity and norm development. The tri-part entry for each test includes an Introduction, Practical Applications/Uses and Technical Aspects, followed by a critique. The Introduction describes the test in detail, including information on the authors and publisher and the purpose of the test. Practical Applications/Uses gives information aimed toward the test user, including intended population, administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures. Technical Aspects includes citations from reliability and validity studies and opinions from experts regarding the technical adequacy of the test. The text is written for both professionals and students, with technical terms explained, and includes helpful information not usually found in other reference books. This makes it a user-friendly resource for students, teachers or persons unfamiliar with test terminology.

What tests are included? Tests are chosen for inclusion based on research on the most frequently used psychological, educational, and business-related tests. Selections are also made based on surveys of professional organizations regarding the tests they would most like to see critiqued. This text is updated annually.

How do I use it? Each volume contains a table of contents that lists all reviewed tests alphabetically, along with the name of the reviewer. Each volume also contains cumulative indexes organized by test title, test publisher, test author and reviewer, and subject. This makes it easy to locate information on a test reviewed in any of the volumes, all in one location. Once you have located and read the review for any test, contact the publisher for more information regarding the purchase of the test. Also, because Test Critiques is a companion to Tests, you can look to the Tests directory for more information regarding any test described in Test Critiques.