6 Welcome to Personality Assessment

This module focuses on personality assessment, evaluation, and ethics. Please watch the videos and work your way through the notes. The videos start on the next page.
You can find the module playlist here.

6.1 Learning Goals

By the end of this module, you should be able to achieve all the learning goals outlined below.

  • Define personality assessment and key concepts associated with assessment.
  • Distinguish between S and B data, as they relate to projective versus objective tests, in personality assessment.
  • Understand projective tests and evaluate their merits.
  • Define objective tests and recognize examples of them.
  • Explain and distinguish different methods of objective test construction.
  • Recognize strengths and weaknesses of different methods of objective test construction.
  • Explain how factor analytic methods revealed the Big Five traits.
  • Understand the process of evaluating research with significance testing.
  • Illustrate the use of effect sizes as a means of evaluating research.
  • Interpret and recognize important ethical issues related to personality assessment.
  • Explain the principle of replication and evaluate its merit in science.
  • Identify some of the possible questionable research practices and explain how they can be avoided.
  • Understand the properties of and reasons behind the emergence of open science.

6.2 Module Materials

6.2.1 Explore

  • Readings
  • Videos
    • Located in the subchapters of this module
  • Slidedecks
    • Located on Canvas

6.2.2 Engage

  • Activities
    • Located on Canvas

6.2.3 Evaluate

  • Quiz
    • Located on Canvas