Test battery

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In differential psychology or psychological diagnostics, a test battery is a combination of different individual tests . It pursues the goal of increasing the validity of the often complex feature or state of affairs that can only be insufficiently measured with a single test.

Types and forms

The test literature shows very different types and forms of test batteries: They differ particularly in their content and / or structural orientation. Test batteries can, for example , try to empirically explore phenomena in sensorimotor , intellectual , social and other areas. They can be used as language tests on levels such as text comprehension , vocabulary , word formation , sentence grammar , illuminate different areas of intelligence, present themselves as personality tests or as professional aptitude tests or take on the broad spectrum of physical performance or technical skills. However, they can also differ structurally as so-called homogeneous or heterogeneous batteries.

Test combinations in which test batteries from different areas are put together, such as test procedures that query not only intelligence but also motor or social performance, are more appropriately referred to as “test systems” to distinguish them from “batteries”. For example, for the decision on filling a vacancy in a complex examination unit, intelligence tests, personality tests, motivation tests and concentration tests, which sensibly and necessarily already represent batteries with a series of subtests, can be procedurally combined to form a test unit, which is in a Examination phase are to be processed.

Homogeneous and heterogeneous batteries

The distinction between homogeneous and heterogeneous test batteries, such as the test psychologist Gustav A. Lienert makes, is primarily of a structural nature. The experimental psychologist and test author Siegbert A. Warwitz defines the main differences as follows:

Homogeneous batteries are characterized by the fact that their individual tasks measure more or less the same traits of a feature. Accordingly, they correlate relatively high both with each other and with the validity criterion. Homogeneous batteries generally have a greater internal consistency.

In heterogeneous batteries , individual tasks are combined that each measure different traits of a characteristic, i.e. complement each other when recording the variables. They correlate relatively low with one another, but with the criterion relatively high. Heterogeneous batteries are primarily designed to improve validity and are particularly used to record complex characteristics . Correspondingly, heterogeneous test batteries usually consist of more individual tasks (items) than homogeneous test batteries, which only better secure a narrower criterion.

Examples

Intelligence measurement

In the field of intelligence measurement, the intelligence structure test (IST) by R. Amthauer has developed into a widespread standard procedure, along with numerous others . The test battery consists of individual task groups, each of which reflects an area of ​​intelligence, such as spatial imagination, linguistic and conclusive thinking, abstraction ability or ability to combine. In their sum, the various tasks result in an intelligence profile . The areas of application are above all the clinical area to find out corresponding deficits in patients and the professional aptitude diagnostics .

Sensorimotor skills

In the area of ​​sensorimotor skills, the Vienna Coordination Course (WKP) by S. Warwitz has gained greater importance, especially in the area of ​​aptitude tests for academic sports studies as well as for admission to elite sports schools and for candidates in the police and military service. It is an empirical-diagnostic inventory of the complex performance spectrum of coordinative skills as a basic requirement for learning and performance in all areas of the art of movement and sport. About the interaction of cognitive, sensory and motor components such as space detection performance, spatial orientation, movement control, motion flow, precision of movement, flexibility, economy of movement, it is checked in a test battery of eight items movement coupling and anticipation ability .

literature

  • Rudolf Amthauer: Intelligence Structure Test 2000 R: IST 2000 R Manual . 2nd edition, Hogrefe, Verlag für Psychologie, Göttingen 2001, DNB 965201929.
  • Mohammes K. Bakir Bashokhaj: The creation of a test battery as a measuring instrument for recording the conditional skills of Jordanian football players in the first division , dissertation at the University of Gießen, Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-8288-8285-4 .
  • Klaus Bös: The “Vienna coordination course” by Warwitz . In: Ders .: Handbook of sport motor tests. Göttingen 2001, pp. 361–364, 3rd edition 2017
  • Heinrich Furrer: Statistical review of the reliability and objectivity of a sport psychological test battery (WKP) . Knowledge State examination thesis. Karlsruhe 1975.
  • P. Herzberg: Test battery for recording motor learning ability , In: Theory and Practice of Body Culture (TPKK) 17 (1968) p. 1066 ff.
  • Gustav A. Lienert, Ulrich Raatz: Test setup and test analysis. 6th edition. Beltz, Weinheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-621-27424-1 .
  • Siegbert Warwitz: The Sports Science Experiment. Planning-implementation-evaluation-interpretation . Verlag Hofmann, Schorndorf 1976, ISBN 3-7780-9021-6 .
  • A. Wurdel: Sport motor test batteries and motor learning ability , Ahrensburg 1972.
  • Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (Ed.): Directory of test procedures: Vienna coordination course . 21st edition, Trier 2014, pages 129-131 (9001322)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ W. Stangl: Keyword: 'test battery'. Online encyclopedia for psychology and education. 2018
  2. ↑ Heinrich Furrer: Statistical review of the reliability and objectivity of a sport psychological test battery (WKP) . Knowledge State examination thesis. Karlsruhe 1975
  3. ↑ Mohammes K. Bakir Bashokhaj: The creation of a test battery as a measuring instrument for recording the physical abilities of Jordanian football players in the First League , dissertation at the University of Gießen, Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2001
  4. ↑ Gustav A. Lienert: Test setup and test analysis. 3rd edition, Beltz, Weinheim 1969, p. 376
  5. ^ Siegbert Warwitz: Significance and construction of batteries , In: Ders .: The sport-scientific experiment. Planning-implementation-evaluation-interpretation . Verlag Hofmann, Schorndorf 1976, p. 49.
  6. ↑ ibid, pp. 49-50.
  7. ↑ A. Wurdel: Sports motor test batteries and motor learning ability , Ahrensburg 1972, p. 13
  8. ^ Rudolf Amthauer: The Intelligence Structure Test. IS. Psychology Publishing House, Oxford 1953
  9. ^ Center for Psychological Information and Documentation (Ed.): Directory of test procedures: Vienna coordination course . 21st edition, Trier 2014, pp. 129-131
  10. ↑ Siegbert Warwitz: The Vienna coordination course , In: Ders .: The sport science experiment. Planning-implementation-evaluation-interpretation . Verlag Hofmann, Schorndorf 1976, pp. 48-62