ABSTRACT
The domain of psychological testing is divided into subdomains with somewhat different practices and issues. The most important subdomains are intelligence, personality, and clinical testing. Excellent reviews and discussions of item response theory (IRT) for clinical assessment with relevance also for personality assessment are provided by Morizot et al. (2007), Reise and Waller (2009), and Thomas (2011). More specifically for personality assessment, Reise and Henson (2003) published an introduction and brief discussion of issues. Unfortunately, there are no similar reviews for intelligence tests. Embretson et al. (2000) wrote a fine introduction to psychometric approaches for the measurement of intelligence, which was not meant to be a review article. A possible reason for a lack of specific reviews is that intelligence tests are cognitive tests like most tests for educational measurement.
