Psychometric Consultancy

Colin Cooper PhD

Currently Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Queen's University of Belfast, I have published extensively in the areas of personality, human abilities, moods, and psychometric theory. You may also know my face from the BBC TV programmes Test the Nation: The National IQ Test. I devised and standardised the tests used on these programmes, and also appeared twice on the Japanese version of the show. My books include Individual Differences (now in its 2nd edition), Intelligence and Abilities, and Test the Nation: The IQ Book. I have also published 60+ papers and chapters in academic journals: plus reviews of psychometric tests in the prestigious Mental Measurement Yearbooks.

I am a Chartered Psychologist, a member of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Associate Editor of the international journal Personality and Individual Differences and a member of the European Association of Personality Psychology. Please feel free to request my full curriculum vitae and an outline of current research interests.

My consultancy work is in four main areas:-

• Design and development of psychological tests
• Evaluation of individual tests and selection systems - e.g., for adverse impact , book proposals, etc.
• Training professionals and practitioners in psychometrics, statistics, and individual differences
• Writing distance-learning materials

In addition, I am experienced in numerical analysis and programming experiments in human experimental psychology and multivariate statistical routines as my research involves developing and implementing novel methods of multivariate analysis (particularly factor analysis).

Do please contact me if you need a well-qualified consultant with a sound theoretical appreciation of mental measurement and a keen interest in applying these principles to real-life problems. Either e-mail consultancy@colincooper.org or click for phone/fax details.

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