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Study Plan
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Laurea in Scienze psicologiche per la formazione - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Psychological testing (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S007360
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-PSI/03 - PSYCHOMETRICS
The teaching is organized as follows:
Lezione
Esercitazione
Learning outcomes
1) Know and understand methods of research and measurement of psychological phenomena related to the individual, interpersonal relationship and groups.
2) Apply the knowledge of the psychological measurement tools of the individual's assessment to the assessment of the needs of learning, training and development of individuals in the life cycle, groups, organizations and communities
Program
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The program will be developed trough frontal lessons, workshop with psychologists expert on the application of psychological tests in clinical and organizational context and work groups. The work group activities will be optional. The moodle platform will be used to support the course activities. The program is the same for both students who attend the course and who not attend it.
The program of the course will cover the following topics:
- The issue of the measure in psychology
- The administration of a questionnaire
- How to build a psychological test: what we want to measure
- The scaling models - How to write a test
- Preliminary analysis of the items
- Exploratory and confirmatory analysis and criterion validity
- Interpretation and standardization of the scores
- Introduction and application of two famous psychological tests
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A brief description of the program that will be done during the lab:
L1. How to write the items of a questionnaire, to collect data and prepare a database;
L2. Preparation of the database (continue), coding of the variables and transformation of the reverse;
L3. Analysis of the quality of the data and of the scale;
L4. Introduction of JAMOVI: descriptive statistics and reliability of the scale;
L5. Exploratory factor analysis
L6. Confirmatory factor analysis and criterio validity
L7. Exercitations
Bibliography
| Activity | Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Lezione | Carlo Chiorri | Teoria e tecnica psicometrica. Costruire un test psicologico | McGraw-Hill Education | 2011 | ||
| Esercitazione | Vito M. R. Muggeo Giancarlo Ferrara | Il linguaggio R : concetti introduttivi ed esempi | 2005 |
Examination Methods
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The exam is written and it is composed by 32 questions with multiple choice responses on the topics of the course. The final score of the exam is the sum of the score of a written exam (compulsory, score from 0 to 32), the score of the laboratory exercitation (facultative, score from 0 to 3), the score of the work-group presentation and discussion on a paper (facultative, score from 0 to 2).
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MM: Esercitazioni
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Final written exam (facultative, score from 0 to 3) with exercises on Excel and JASP to test the psychometric properties of a test.
