Klaus Kubinger

Klaus D. Kubinger ( born May 25, 1949 in Vienna) is an Austrian psychologist and statistician. He was University Professor of Psychological Assessment at the Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna. Since October 2012, he is retired.

Life

1973 doctorate Klaus Kubinger Dr. phil. psychology in Vienna and was assistant university there. Between 1974 and 1993 he also worked as a lecturer in statistics at the Institute of Sociology. 1985 and his habilitation in psychology; since Klaus Kubinger is both head of training and examination subject coordinator of the subject Psychological Assessment at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna.

In 1989, his Master's degree in social and economic statistics. During his university career Klaus Kubinger also held several visiting professorships at the Universities of Graz, Klagenfurt, Berlin and Potsdam.

He became an associate professor in 1992. 1998 he was appointed University Professor of Psychology with special emphasis on psychological assessment in Vienna and transfer the management of the operating range of the same name. In 1998 he founded the testing and counseling center. As Head of the Institute of Psychology in the years 2001-2004 Klaus Kubinger was largely responsible for the reorganization of the institute into an independent faculty. 2004-2011 Klaus Kubinger was head of the Department of Developmental Psychology and Psychological Assessment at the Faculty of Psychology. In 1992, the qualification for clinical and health psychologists, and in 1997 qualified as a psychotherapist ( " Systemic family therapy "). 2004 acquired Klaus Kubinger the " license for professional aptitude evaluation according to DIN 33430 ."

Services

At the beginning of the career of Klaus Kubinger were applications of the Rasch model ( item response theory ) to relevant psychological- diagnostic process and the use of the linear logistic test model ( LLTM, a special case of the Rasch model ) for the analysis of difficulty components in problem solving tasks with consideration of learning effects.

Then embossed work to develop a non-parametric discriminant analysis and a two-fold analysis of variance for ranking scaled features his research interest. Later it came to the development of intelligence test battery AID or AID 2, which is based on the principle of adaptive testing, as well as the development of several sensu Objective personality tests RB Cattell, for which he introduced the term "experimental psychological behavior diagnostics ". Lately, his work is focused on the basic research on the psychological- diagnostic process ( faking of personality questionnaire ), rate effects in multiple- choice tests, equivalence of computerized or transmitted to other cultures tests) and the further development of methods of item response theory.

Functions

  • Member of the Board of Trustees test ( German Federation of Psychologists Associations ) as representative of the DGP ( German Society for Psychology ), 2000-2006
  • Attendee of the group of speakers of the Section of Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment of DGPs: 2006-2008
  • Member of the Commission students selecting the DGP ( German Society for Psychology ), 2006-2008
  • Member representing the Rectors' Conference in psychologists Advisory Board for ( ö ) Psychologists Act 1991 since 2005
  • Member of the Standards Committee for the creation of ÖNORM D 4000 " requirements for processes and methods in personnel selection and development", since 2004
  • Since 2003 Editor -in- Chief of Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling
  • Since 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Individual Differences
  • Since 2007 Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Selection and Assessment

Awards

  • 2007: Alfred Binet Award of the German Society for Psychology
  • 2009: Award of the European Association of Psychological Assessment
  • 2010: award for his life's work of the Section Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment of the German Society for Psychology

Writings (selection )

  • Problems of cognitive Early Intervention and the dependence of their effectiveness from the verbal behavior of the kindergarten teacher. PhD thesis, University of Vienna, 1973; Partial pressure: Ketterl, Vienna 1982.
  • Introduction to Psychological Assessment. PVU, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-621-27259-3.
  • Psychological ( with Günther Deegener ) history in children and adolescents. Hogrefe, Göttingen, 2001, ISBN 3-8017-1278-8.
  • Psychological Assessment: Theory and Practice psychological diagnosing. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-8017-1693-7; 2nd revised and expanded edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-8017-2254-8.
  • ( with Dieter Rasch ) statistics for the study of psychology: with software support for the planning and evaluation of examinations as well as to sequential method. Elsevier, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8274-1627-2.
  • ( with Dieter Rasch and Takuya Yanagida ) Statistics in Psychology: From the introductory course to the dissertation. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8017-2356-9.
  • ( with Dieter Rasch and Takuya Yanagida ) Statistics in psychology using R and SPSS. Wiley, Chichester, 2011, ISBN 978-0-470-97124-6.
  • HAWIK: possibilities and limits its application. Beltz, Weinheim 1983.
  • Modern test theory: An outline together with the latest posts. PVU, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-621-86160-2; 2nd edition 1989.
  • ( with Helfried Teichmann ) Psychological assessment and intervention in case studies. Beltz, Weinheim, 1997, ISBN 3-621-27382-4.
  • ( with Reinhold S. Jäger ) key concepts of psychological assessment. Beltz, Weinheim 2003, ISBN 3-621-27472-3.
  • ( with Tuulia M. Ortner and René T. Proyer ) Theory and practice of objective personality tests. Huber, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-456-84307-0.
  • Psychological ( with Tuulia M. Ortner ) diagnostics in case studies. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8017-2244-9.
  • ( with Martina Frebort, Lale Khorramdel and Lisbeth Weitensfelder; " Viennese author collective student counseling Tests" ): Self-Assessment: Theory and Concepts. Pabst, Lengerich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89967-782-9.
  • ( with Elisabeth sausage) AID: An adaptive diagnostic intelligence. Beltz, Weinheim 1985.
  • ( with John Ebenhöh ) working postures - Short test battery: level of aspiration, frustration tolerance, achievement motivation, impulsivity / reflectivity. Swets Test Services, Frankfurt am Main 1996.
  • ( with Elisabeth sausage) AID 2: Adaptive Intelligence diagnostic 2 Beltz, Göttingen 2000.
  • ( with Stefana Holocher - Ertl and Stefan Menghin ) B5PO: Big Five Plus One Personality Inventory. Dr. G. Schuhfried GmbH, Mödling 2003.
  • ( with Tuulia M. Ortner, Andrea scrap Regina Radinger, Margarete Litzenberger ) Baco -D: Resilience Assessment: Objective computerized personality test battery. Harcourt Test Services, Frankfurt am Main, 2006.
  • AID 2: Adaptive intelligence diagnostic device 2 ( version 2.2). Beltz, Göttingen, 2009.
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