Educational goals:
The aim of the course is to provide basic knowledge and skills in the field of psychological measurement and psychological tests, of psychological test construction techniques and of the main applications of psychological tests. The course aims to provide the student with the terminological and technical tools to understand and know how to use the psychological tests and questionnaires, related manuals and related scientific literature.
Knowledge and understanding:
- Knowledge of terms and concepts related to the validity, reliability and statistical techniques used for the validation of the tests
- Knowledge of the mathematical language and logic applied to the validation and construction techniques of the tests
- Learning to read and use a manual that explains how to administer and score the psychological test

Applying knowledge and understanding:
- Ability to administer a test independently
- Ability to independently perform the scoring of individual scores to a test
- Ability to evaluate the most suitable tests for measuring individual psychological characteristics

Autonomy of judgment:
- Ability to evaluate autonomously test scores
- Ability to judge autonomously individual characteristics based on the test scores

Communication skills:
- Ability to communicate test scores
- Ability to explain the profiles of a test
- Ability to describe individual characteristics (intelligence, personality, psychological traits)

Learning skills:
- Ability to learn the calculations for assessing the reliability of measurements obtained with a test
- Ability to use the normative tables of the manuals of a psychological test
- Ability to elaborate and interpret the intellectual and personality profiles of subjects on the basis of their test scores