04_Measures of Ability, Aptitude, and Interests Flashcards
Curriculum-based measurement is used to assess basic _________ presented in the current curriculum in order to facilitate decisions related to instructional effectiveness.
Academic skills
_________- based assessment involves evaluating a student’s ability to carry out a physical activity or produce a product.
Performance
Measures used to identify learning disabilities include the ITPA-3, which provides information on a child’s _________.
Linguistic abilities
[Illinois Test of Psychomotor Abilities]
The _________ is a rapid screening device for assessing reading, spelling, and math skills.
WRAT4
wide range achievement test
The SAT Reasoning Test is used to predict the college success of high school seniors, and consists of three sections: Critical Reading, Mathematical, and _________.
Writing
Studies have found that the SAT is somewhat less accurate as a predictor for examinees who obtained scores in the _________ of the score distribution.
Middle range
Traditionally, aptitude tests have been described as measures of _________, while achievement tests are considered measures of knowledge acquired in a controlled setting.
Innate learning capacity
Multiple aptitude tests often lack _________ validity.
Differential
The _________ was designed for students in grades 7 through 12 to assist in educational and career counseling, while the GATB issues with high school seniors and adults for vocational counseling and job placement.
Differential Aptitude Test (DAT)
[GATB = General Aptitude Test Batery]
Measures of specific aptitudes are usually better at predicting _________ performance than on-the-job success.
Training program
Psychomotor tests tend to have low validity due to their susceptibility to practice effects and high _________.
Specificity
Research investigating the validity of interest inventories suggests that they are less valid than intelligence tests for predicting job success, but are good predictors of job choice, _________, and persistence.
Job satisfaction
The Occupational Scales of the Strong Interest Inventory were developed on the basis of _________, which involves comparing responses of males and females in different occupational groups to those of men and women in a general representative sample.
Development of the KOIS also used this method, but involves considering only the responses of people in _________.
Empirical criterion keying
Different occupations
The Self-Directed Search (SDS) yields scores on six _________ that are conceptualized in terms of the hexagon.
Starting at the upper left of the hexagon and moving clockwise, the six categories are: Realistic, Investigative, _________, Social, Enterprising, and _________.
Occupational themes
Artistic
Conventional
Holland believed that several factors are important when interpreting and examinee’s scores on the SDS, including _________, which refers to the similarity of the examinee’s two strongest measured interests, and _________, which refers to the degree of distinctiveness of an examinee’s measured interest.
Consistency
Differentiation
