单词 | psychometrics |
释义 | psychometricsn. With singular agreement. The measurement of mental capacity, thought processes, aspects of personality, etc., esp. by mathematical or statistical analysis of quantitative data; the science or study of this; (also) the construction and application of psychological tests (cf. psychometric test n. (b) at psychometric adj. Compounds.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > measurement of mental states > [noun] psychometry1879 psychometrics1914 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental action or process > psychology of mental action > [noun] > measurement of mental phenomena psychometry1879 psychometrics1914 1914 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 11 64 With psychometrics comes the use of analytic functions and the assumption that natural events may be represented by analytic functions. 1930 Proc. & Addr. Amer. Assoc. Stud. Feeble-minded 35 94 To most persons who know the term at all, psychometrics is fairly synonymous with the use of intelligence tests. 1958 Times 27 May 2/2 (advt.) Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Education with special interests in psychometrics, statistics and educational psychology. 1976 J. B. Carroll in L. B. Resnick Nature of Intelligence iii. 27 Psychometrics has increasingly lost contact with the mainstream of psychological theory and experimentation. 2003 Time 27 Oct. 50/1 The world of standardized testing has its own language..an entire branch of science, psychometrics, is devoted to test design and analysis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1914 |
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