Course content:

1) Goals of psychodiagnostics, its benefits and risks: clinical and psychometric approaches, evaluation of tests and psychodiagnostic methods, requirements for a good manual, authorities in test review

2) Phases of the psychodiagnostic process: goal, strategy, examination, reflection, conclusion with report or feedback and evaluation of the process.

3) Items, their types, basic principles of test development: working with distractors, use of different types of scales, unidimensional vs. multidimensional tests

4) Basic overview of the most used psychological tests: main breakdowns, advantages and disadvantages of different types of tests

6) Item analysis: item difficulty, item discrimination, item correlation with HS, external criterion, inter-item correlation, IRT basics

7) Factor analysis in psychodiagnostics: factor equation, loading, communalities, factor eigenvalue, factor rotation, principles of factor number selection,

5) Norm and normality: population norm, criterion norm and other types of norms, norm generation, Q classification

8) Reliability calculations: measurement theory, general definition of reliability, reliability estimates and how to calculate them, Spearman Brown formula, measurement error

9) Agreement of assessors: as an estimate of reliability in observation and assessment, agreement coefficient, kappa coefficient

10) Sensitivity and specificity of tests: cut off scores, ROC curves, AUC (area under curve)

11) Validity: Calculations of different types of validity, examples of specific validation studies for different diagnostic methods

12) Test batteries and data integration: quantitative and qualitative integration of diagnostic test data and information, disjunctive, conjunctive, compensatory and combined models.

13) Observation in psychodiagnostics: the most well-known observation systems, training in team interaction diagnosis using IPA, Gottman's SPAFF, Ekman's FACS, etc.

14) Psychodiagnostic interview: basic rules for conducting an interview, types of questions, practice of specific interviews

15) Analysis of traces and activity results in psychodiagnostics: current trends in psychometrics - analysis of digital traces on different online platforms.

16) Types of psychological reports: key elements, principles of quality assessment: informational value or detail/specificity, adequacy/accuracy, evidence based approach - evidence based.

17) Feedback on diagnostic assessment results: rules for providing feedback on diagnostic results, practice specific feedback in pairs.

18) Ethical standards of testing and psychodiagnostic process