Have students critique measures

Measures to be critiqued could include projective tests, tests in magazines and books, lie detectors, self-monitoring tests, student evaluation forms, SATs, or IQ tests.

Useful resources include

Briggs, S. R. & Cheek, J. M. (1988). On the nature of self- monitoring:

Problems with assessment, problems with validity. Journal of

Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 663-678.

Goldman, B. A., & Mitchell, D. F. (2008).  Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures (Vol. 9).

        Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Gould, S. J. (1981). The mismeasure of man. New York: Norton.

Lykken, D. T. (1981). A tremor in the blood: Uses and abuses of the

lie detector. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Robinson, J. P., Shaver, P. R., & Wrightsman, L. S. (1991).

Measures of personality and social psychological

attitudes. New York: Academic Press.

Sternberg, R. J. (1986). Intelligence applied. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Sources of measures on the web


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