by
Paul Ekman
Wallace V. Friesen
Joseph C. Hager
FINAL TEST PROCEDURE
MAILING ADDRESS: FACS, A Human Face, 666 Malibu Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84107-2939
December 9, 2002
Principal Investigator, Laboratory Director, Professor, or other supervisor of FACS training:
These instructions are transitional testing procedures for the FACS Final Test as it changes from the original FACS Manual to the current edition of FACS. Parts of this procedure are yet to be automated and available on this Web site. When scoring the FACS Final Test, use the scoring procedures as described in the current (2002) FACS Manual. Please note that the only purpose for which these materials are loaned is for the FACS Final Test procedure; no other use is granted for reasons of confidentiality of human subjects materials.
The FACS Final Test of Proficiency in using FACS (FFT) is described briefly in Chapter 13 of the Investigator's Guide. This test provides you with an opportunity to evaluate your reliability against two criteria: arbitrated criterion scores of experts and the scores of others who learned FACS as you did. We believe it is essential that you take this test so that you can be certain that you score behavior in the same way as do others who use FACS.
When you take the Final Test and achieve satisfactory reliability, your name is added to a file of certified FACS users and you will be notified about further developments or changes we make in FACS, and you will be informed of any conferences on facial measurement that we plan or that others inform us about. We ask that you indicate your satisfactory completion of the test in research publications where FACS is used to code facial behavior.
For those who have learned FACS as a group, we urge that you take the test independently so that each person may qualify as an independent scorer and can serve as a reliability coder for each of the others. Do not take this test as a group.
The test consists of 34 videotaped excerpts from conversations. The source of these videotapes is described in Chapter 13 of the Guide. This videotape has been digitized and is available as an MPEG 1 or 2 digital file. You need to have an MPEG digital player running on your computer to take this test (e.g., use Windows Media Player on Windows operating system).
We can only loan you the digital file, not sell or give it to you, and we must ask your agreement not to use it for any purpose other than to test your proficiency in FACS scoring and to destroy or return the original and destroy all copies after your test is complete. You are permitted to make a disk copy of the test to facilitate your testing procedures, but you must destroy (erase or physically destroy) all copies after completing the test. You must not give this file to other research groups or distribute it to any third parties. The individuals who consented to let their interviews be used in the Final Test were told that it would not be used for any more general educational purposes, nor for research. It is only by loaning the video that we can exercise any control over the use made of the original videotape. Quite apart from concern for the privacy of the people shown in the video, we believe it is important to monitor proficiency achieved in learning FACS so we can ascertain whether investigators finish the training and reach the usual standards of reliability. By retaining the Final Test, by asking you to agree not to copy it, we can insure that each new learner will have to contact us to take the Final Test.
Steps involved in taking the Final Test.
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1. Print and sign the agreement and checklist. Keep a copy for yourself. Send the original Agreement Form to us at the address below. |
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2. We send you the digital file and instruction sheet about procedures to follow in taking the Final Test. |
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3. Anticipate that it will take you about 12 hours to score and enter your scoring of the 34 items. Enter your scores into a file using the FACS Score Checker program. Name the file "FFT_" + your initials + the standard extention ".jso", for example FFT_jch.jso or whatever your initials might be. |
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5. Send your scores in the file via email as an attachment to joehager@face-and-emotion.com. If you cannot send them via email, send them on a diskette. Do not return or destroy your test materials at this time. Keep them until you have received word that you have passed the test. Then return or destroy any copies. |
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6. We run your scores through the computer program to generate a matrix for each item which shows criterion scoring, your scoring, and the scoring of other learners, and a listing of the coefficients of agreement you achieved for each item.
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7. If you achieve satisfactory reliability, we send you this printout, a commentary on the 34 items (similar to the commentary on the Practice Items contained in Chapter 7 of the Guide), and a brief assessment of any idiosyncratic scoring problems which might remain. |
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8. If you did not achieve satisfactory reliability, we will not send you back the correct answers, because we want you to be able to retake the test. Instead, we will inform you of the problem(s), and tell you about any systematic errors you have made, encouraging you to study the Manual on those matters, and then retake the test, submitting new scores as in Step 4. |
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9. Review the test materials with these materials in hand. |
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10. Return the disk to us and destroy any copy. |
We allow two months for this process to be completed.
To proceed you must send us:
1. Signed copy of the Agreement Form.
2. Checklist
3. Send to:
Joseph C. Hager
A Human Face
666 Malibu Drive
Salt Lake City UT 84107-2950
NOTE: The FACS Final Test is a product of the Institute of
Psychology at the University of Innsbruck; produced by Professor Eva
Baenninger-Huber, ; and scored for FACS in 2002 by Eva
Baenninger-Huber, Doris Peham, Barbara Juen, Ruth Mueller and Verena
Ganzer.