Educational Psychology 590U
Personality Assessment
Spring 2008 (Seminar: Weds 2-5)
Instructor: James Rounds
188R
Education
Office Hours: Weds 1-2
Course Overview
The
course is intended to be: an examination
of the history, models, research bases, issues and controversies, and
strategies used in the assessment of personality; and a supervised practicum in
scoring, and interpretation of personality measures with a focus on Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory and normal personality inventories and their
diagnostic uses.
The
course will include lecture, discussion, and supervised practice. The didactic aspect will examine methods of
assessment and research and current issues surrounding the practice of
personality measurement. The laboratory
component will include practice in the administration and scoring of
personality measures, and case presentations.
The objectives of the course are for student to learn: techniques of data
collection in personality assessment, prediction models in personality
assessment, personality theory as assessment models, and personality test
interpretation.
The following measures and
procedures are covered:
Rorschach
NEO Personality Inventory
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Course Structure
Seminar.
The seminar will consist of student presentations, and discussion. Each week, three or more people will be
assigned to lead the discussion on articles.
But all students should come to class ready to discuss any or all of the
assigned readings. The instructor will
also provide overviews of the readings and comments on particularly important
issues. Class discussions and presentations
will be an important supplement to the reading, and your participation will
affect your course grade.
Course Requirements
·
Participate in class discussion and present summaries of the
readings, as assigned. Your participation in class discussions and
presentation critiques is valued, appreciated and required. To facilitate
discussion, each student is responsible for generating comments and critiques
on the readings for that week and posting these comments on the course the
night before class (no later than midnight).
It is the discussant’s responsibility to collate these comments and
bring copies to class for discussion.
·
Write 2-3 personality assessment reports or a research
paper/proposal or a test review.
·
Self-administer the MMPI, NEO, and CPI and write an
interpretation or have a classmate write the interpretation.
·
Present in class an interpretation of a personality
assessment protocol or your research paper/proposal or test review.
Your final grade will be based on
personality assessment reports or research paper (20%) and successful
completion of the case presentation or research proposal (20%) and class
participation (60%). Assessment reports
will be graded: unsatisfactory, does not
meet minimal requirements (S‑), satisfactory, meets minimal requirements
(+), and excellent, meets minimal requirements and demonstrates better than
standard interpretive skills (++).
Text
Wiggins,
J. (2003). Paradigms of
personality assessment.
Reference Texts and Manuals
American Psychological Association. (2002). Ethical principles of
psychologists and code of conduct.
American Psychological Association
(1999). Standards for educational and psychological testing.
Block, J. The Q-sort method in personality
assessment and psychiatric research.
Butcher, J. N., Dahlstrom, W. G.,
Graham, J. R., Tellegen, A. M., & Kaemmer, B. (2001). MMPI-2: Manual for administration, scoring, and
interpretation, Revised Edition.
Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R.
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Greene, R. L. (2000). MMPI: An interpretive manual (2nd
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Gough, H. G. (1987/1996).
Graham, J. R. (2000). The
MMPI-2: Assessing personality and
psychopathology ( 3rd ed.).
McAllister, L. W. (1996). A
practical guide to CPI interpretation ( 3rd ed.).
The
readings for the course are indicated on the accompanying course syllabus
(required readings are in bold). Each week’s readings are listed in
approximately the order in which related topics will be considered in
class. A copy of the required readings
will be made available in Psychology library and Education. Many of the readings can be downloaded from
the UIUC library.
WORKING SYLLABUS
Seminar
Personality Assessment
EDPSY 590U Spring 2008
James Rounds
January 16
Course Introduction and Overview (No
readings)
January
23
Brief
History of Assessment
Personality
Assessment and Personality Theory
Traits
(Overview, Importance, History)
Harkness, A. R., & Lilienfeld,
S. O. (1997). Individual difference science for treatment planning: Personality
traits. Psychological Assessment, 9, 349-360. pdf
Hofstee,
W. K. B. (1994). Who should own the definition of
personality? European Journal of
Personality, 8, 149-162. pdf
Lubinski,
D. (2000). Scientific and social
significance of assessing individual differences: Sinking shafts at a few critical points. Annual Review of Psychology, 51,
405-444. pdf
Meyer, G. J., Finn, S. E., Eyde, L.
D., Kay, G. G., Moreland, K. L., Dies, R. R., Eisman, E. J., Kubiszyn, T. W.,
& Reed, G. M. (2001). Psychological testing and psychological
assessment. American Psychologist, 56,
128-165. pdf
Ozer, D. J., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2006). Personality and the
prediction of consequential outcomes. Annual
Review of Psychology. pdf
DuBois, P. H. (1966). A test-dominated society:
(Traits: Classic Viewpoints)
Allport, G. W. (1958). What units
shall we employ? In G. Lindzey (Ed.), Assessment of human motives (pp.
239-260).
Murray, H. A. (1958). Drive, time, strategy, measurement, and our
way of life. In G. Lindzey (Ed.), Assessment of human motives (pp.
183-196).
(Traits)
Harkness, A. R., & Hogan,
R. (1995). The theory and measurement of
traits: Two views. In J. N. Butcher
(Ed.) Clinical personality assessment: practical approaches (pp. 28 –
41).
Tellegen, A. (1991). Personality traits: Issues of definition,
evidence, and assessment. In W. M. Grove
& D. Cicchetti (Eds.), Thinking
clearly about psychology: Personality and psychopathology (Vol. II, pp.
10-35).
(Types)
Strube, M. J. (1989). Evidence for the Type in Type A
Behavior: A taxometric analysis. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 56,
972-987. pdf
January 30
Construct Validity
(Classical articles and Reflections)
Campbell, D. T. & Fiske, D. W. (1959). Convergent and discriminant validation by the
multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 56, 81-105. pdf
Fiske, D. W., & Campbell, D. T.
(1992). Citations do not solve
problems. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 393-395. pdf
Cronbach, L. J. & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological
tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302. pdf
Cronbach, L. J. (1992). Four Psychological
Bulletin articles in perspective. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 389-392. pdf
(Applications and extensions and
discussions)
Embretson (Whitely), S. (1983).
Construct validity: Construct representation versus nomothetic
span. Psychological Bulletin, 93, 179-197. pdf
Hogan, R. & Nicholson, R. A.
(1988). The meaning of personality test
scores. American Psychologist, 43, 621-626. pdf
Messick, S. (1995). Validity of psychological assessment:
Validation of inferences from persons’ responses and performances as scientific
inquiry into score meaning. American
Psychologist, 50, 741-749. pdf
Diener, E. & Eid, M. (2006). The finale: Take-home messages from the
editor. In Eid, M. & Diener,
E. (Eds.). Handbook of Psychological Assessment: A Multimethod
Perspective.
February 6
Tradition test Construction
Saucier, G., & Goldberg, L. R.
(in press). Assessing the Big
Five: Applications of 10 psychometric criteria to the development of marker
scales. In B. De Raad & M. Perugini
(Eds.), Big Five Assessment. Hogrefe & Huber. pdf
Clark, L. A., & Watson, D.
(1995). Constructing validity:
Basic issues in objective scale development.
Psychological Assessment, 7, 309-319. pdf
Werner, P. D., & Pervin, L. A.
(1986). The content of personality inventory
items. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 51, 622-628. pdf
(Social desirability in scale
construction)
Ellingson,
J. E., Sackett, P. R., Hough, L. M. (1999).
Social desirability corrections in personality measurement: Issues of
applicant comparison and construct validity.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 155-166. pdf
(Reliability)
Schmitt, N. (1996). Uses and abuses of coefficient Alpha. Psychological Assessment, 8, 350-353. pdf
(Validity
scales)
(Deception)
Paulhus, D. L. (1986). Self-deception and impression management in
test responses. In A. Angleitner
and J. S. Wiggins (Eds.), Personality
assessment via questionnaires: Current
issues in theory and measurement (pp. 141-165).
Wiggins,
J. (2003). Paradigms of
personality assessment.
Garb, H. N., Wood, J. M., Lilenfeld,
S. O., Nezworski, M. T. (2005). Roots of the Rorschach controversy. Clinical Psychology Review, 25, 97-118. pdf
Lilienfeld, S. O.,
Wood, J. M., & Garb, H. N. (2000). Scientific status of projective
techniques. Psychological Science in the
Public Interest, 1 (2), (Whole). pdf
February 20
Paradigms of assessment:
Interpersonal
Wiggins, J. (2003). Chapters 2 pdf
& 9 pdf
Plutchik, R. (1997). The circumplex as a general model of the
structure of emotions and personality (Epilogue: The future of the
circumplex). In R. Plutchik & H. R.
Conte (Eds.), Circumplex models of
personality and emotions (pp. 17-46, 447-457).
Gurtman, M. B. (1992). Construct
validity of interpersonal personality measures:
The interpersonal circumplex as a nomological net. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 63, 105-118. pdf
Hofstee, W. K. B., de Raad, B., & Goldberg, L. R. (1992). Integration of the big five and circumplex
approaches to trait structure. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 63, 146-163. pdf
Jackson, D. N., & Helmes, E.
(1979). Personality structure and
the circumplex. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 2278-2285. pdf
Wiggins, J. S., Trapnell, P., &
Phillips, N. (1988). Psychometric and geometric characteristics of
the Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales (IAS-R). Multivariate
Behavioral Research, 23, 119-134. pdf
Wiggins, J. S. (1979). A psychological taxonomy of trait-descriptive
terms: The interpersonal domain. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 37, 395-412. pdf
February 27
Paradigms of assessment:
Personological
Wiggins, J. (2003). Chapter 3 pdf
Runyan,
W. M. (1997). Studying lives: Psychobiography and the conceptual
structure of personality psychology. In Hogan, R., Johnson, J. A., & S. R.
Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology. (pp. 41-69).
Stokes, G.
S., Mumford, M. D., & Owens, W. A. (1989). Life history prototypes
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McAdams, D. P. (1996). Personality, moderity, and the storied self:
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to commentaries) pdf
See Commentaries: D. J. Ozer pdf,
R. R. McCrae pdf,
J. T. Lamiell & S. C. Weigert pdf
and more
McAdams, D.
P. (1995). What do we know when we know a person? Journal
of Personality, 63, 365-396. pdf
March 5
Paradigms of personality
assessment: Multivariate
Wiggins, J. (2003). Chapter 4 pdf
& 10 pdf
Benet,
V., Waller, N. G. (1995).
The Big Seven factor model of personality description: Evidence for its
cross-cultural generality in a Spanish sample. Journal of Personality
& Social Psychology, 69, 701-718. pdf
Jackson, D. N. (1971). The
dynamics of structured personality tests:
1971. Psychological Review, 78, 229-248. pdf
McCrae, R. R.,
& Costa, P. T., Jr. (1997). Personality trait structure as a
human universal. American Psychologist., 52, 509-516. pdf
Paunonen, S. V.,
March 26
Paradigms
of personality assessment: Empirical
Wiggins,
J. (2003). Chapters 5 pdf
& 11 pdf
Meehl, P. E. (1945). The dynamics of "structured" personality
tests. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1, 296-303. pdf
Meehl, P. E. (1972). Reactions, reflections, projections. In J. Butcher (Ed.), Objective personality assessment:
Changing perspectives (pp. 131-189).
Nagayama, G. C., Bansal, A., & Lopez,
April 2
Comparison of test construction
strategies
Methods
rational
factor
analytic
criterion
keying
comparison
of methods
(Strategies of personality test
construction)
Burisch, M. (1984). Approaches to
personality inventory construction: A
comparison of merits. American Psychologist, 39, 214-227. pdf
Hase, H. D., & Goldberg, L. R.
(1967). The comparative validity of
different strategies of deriving personality inventory scales. Psychological
Bulletin, 67, 231-248. pdf
(Reflection)
Wolfe, R. N. (1993). A commonsense approach to personality measurement.
In K. H. Craik, R. Hogan, and R. N. Wolfe (eds.), Fifty years of personality psychology.
(IRT)
Waller, N. G., Thompson, J. S., & Werk, E. (2000). Using IRT to
separate measurement bias from true group differences on homogeneous and
heterogeneous scales: An illustration with the MMPI. Psychological Methods, 5,
125-146. pdf
Zickar, M. J. (2001). Conquering the Next Frontier:
Modeling Personality Data with Item Response Theory. In B.W. Roberts & R.
Hogan (Eds.), Personality psychology in the workplace..
April 9
Prediction Models
Dawes, R. M., Faust, D., &
Meehl, P. E. (1989). Clinical versus
actuarial judgement. Science, 243, 1668-1674. pdf
Grove, W. M., & Meehl, P. E. (1996). Comparative efficiency of
informal (subjective, impressionistic) and formal (mechanical, algorithmic)
prediction procedures: The clinical-statistical controversy. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2,
293-323. pdf
Grove, W. M., et al. (2000). Clinical versus mechanical prediction: A
meta-analysis. Psychological Assessment,
12, 19-30. pdf
Kleinmutz, B. (1990). Why we
still use our heads instead of formulas:
Toward an integrative approach. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 296-310. pdf
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graduate fellows: A case study of
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(Decisions: Importance of base rates)
Meehl, P. E. & Rosen, A.
(1955). Antecedent probability and the
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Swets, J. A., Dawes, R. M., & Monahan, J.
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improve diagnostic decisions. Psychological
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Presentations
April 16
Personality stability and change
Caspi, A.. (1993). Why
maladaptive behaviors persist: Sources of continuity and change across the life
course (pp. 343-376). In D. C. Funder,
R.. D. Parke, C. Tomlinson-Keasey, & K. Widaman (Eds.), Studying lives through time: Personality and
development.
Conley, J. J. (1984). Longitudinal consistency of
personality: Self-reported psychological characteristics across 45 years. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 1325-1333. pdf
Helson, R. (1993). Comparing longitudinal studies of
adult development: Toward a paradigm of tension between stability and change
(pp. 93-119). In D. C. Funder, R.. D.
Parke, C. Tomlinson-Keasey, & K. Widaman (Eds.), Studying lives through time: Personality and development.
Low, K. S. D., Yoon, M., Roberts, B. W., & Rounds, J. (2005). The
stability of interests from early adolescence to middle adulthood: A
quantitative review of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 131, 713-737. pdf
Roberts, B. W., DelVecchio, W. F.
(2000). The rank-order consistence of personality traits from childhood to old
age: A quantitative review of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 3-25. pdf
Roberts, B. W.,
Walton, K. & Viechtbauer, W. (2006). Patterns of mean-level
change in personality traits across the life course: A meta-analysis of
longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 3-27. (also, read replies) pdf1, pdf2
Presentations
April 23
Limits of self-report assessment
Henry, B., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi,
A.,
Lucas, R. E., & Baird, B. M.
(2006). Global self assessment. In Eid, M. & Diener, E. (Eds.).
Handbook of Psychological Assessment: A Multimethod Perspective.
Johnson, J. A. (1981). The “self-disclosure” and
“self-presentation” views of item response dynamics and personality scale
validity. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 40, 761-769. pdf
Schwarz, N. (1999).
Self-reports: How the question shapes the answer. American Psychologist, 54, 93-105. pdf
Presentations
April 30
Presentations