psychometrician
- noun
- /ˌsaɪkəˈmɛtrɪʃən/
- Specialized
- An advisory committee representing food scientists, food safety professionals, and psychometricians was formed to identify areas of knowledge in food safety and sanitation that are critical for food establishments such as food retail, food service, and food vending.
Examples
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In this setting, he became one of the world's leading educational psychologists and psychometricians, developing new tests, conducting surveys, and founding child guidance clinics and a special school for the handicapped.
Academic text (1991) -
And so I brought on these three psychometricians who were fabulous and we discussed, built the test.
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So I mentioned a couple of very competent psychometricians around the country.
Blog text (23) -
The board included food scientists, food safety professionals, and psychometricians.
Academic text (1998) -
Some of the measures of cognition, visual perception, and personality were carried out by school psychologists or psychometricians.
Academic text (2012) -
There is broad agreement among statisticians, psychometricians, and economists that student test scores alone are not sufficiently reliable and valid indicators of teacher effectiveness to be used in high-stakes personnel decisions, even when the most sophisticated statistical applications, such as value-added modeling, are employed.
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A qualified psychometrician developed a new test to measure students' cognitive abilities.
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The psychometrician analyzed the results of the psychological assessment to ensure accuracy.
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Many organizations hire a psychometrician to interpret the data from employee personality tests.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
psychometrician = psychometric (semi-transparent) = psych + metric + ian
The formation is regular (psych- + metric + -ian) and the parts transparently mean 'measurement of mind' + agent, but the term is technical and not obvious to general learners.
Etymology
Psychometrician breaks into psycho- ('mind'), metric ('measure') and -ian ('person'). So, like psychology and metric, it means a person who measures the mind — someone who designs and checks tests of people's thinking and abilities.