The importance of employability is related to the fact that various studies show this resource allows people enter and maintain their employment or progress in career. aim study analyse psychometric characteristics French version van Dam's Employability Scale. One hundred ninety workers job seekers completed questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis was carried out, reliability discriminant v...

In this paper, I will review some aspects of psychometric projects that I have been involved in, emphasizing the nature of the work of the psychometricians involved, especially the balance between the statistical and scientific elements of that work. The intent is to seek to understand where psychometrics, as a discipline, has been and where it might be headed, in part at least, by considering ...

A pathology of science is defined as a two-level breakdown in processes of critical inquiry: first, a hypothesis is accepted without serious attempts being made to test it; and, second, this first-level failure is ignored. Implications of this concept of pathology of science for the Kuhnian concept of normal science are explored. It is then shown that the hypothesis upon which psychometrics sta...