Advanced Assessment Flashcards
It pertains to everything done from the
administration, scoring and interpretation of the test.
a. Psychological assessment
b. Assessment
c. Testing
d. Psychological testing
Testing
It is the gathering & integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation.
a. Psychological assessment
b. Assessment
c. Testing
d. Psychological testing
Psychological assessment
Which among the following is/are true?
I. Psychological traits & states exist.
II. Psychological traits & states can be
quantified and measured.
III. Test-related variables do not predict non-test
related behavior.
IV. Errors are sometimes part of the assessment
process.
a. Only I is true
b. Only I & II are true
c. Only I, II, & III are true
d. All are true
Only I & II are true
In order for Sinag to pass the board exam
and have her license, she needs to at least attain an overall percentage
of 75% among the four subjects. This is an example of:
a. Criterion-referenced test
b. Norm-referenced test
c. Group-referenced test
d. Two options are correct
Criterion-referenced test
Explanation:
Criterion-referenced test
* Evaluating an individual’s test scores on the basis of whether or not some criterion has been meet
Norm-referenced test
* Evaluating an individual’s test scores and comparing it to scores of a group of test takers. no cut off scores
Most IQ tests are:
a. Content-referenced
b. Group-referenced
c. Criterion-referenced
d. Norm-referenced
Norm-referenced
This is the level of measurement that has
all the 3 properties of measurement and in which mathematical operations are most permissible.
a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Interval
d. Ratio
Ratio
The following can be manipulated using MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS except for:
a. Nominal
b. Ordinal
c. Interval
d. Ratio
Nominal
Explanation:
Nominal
* no mathematical operations apply; eg: words, letters
Ordinal
* Only property of magnitude. Median and percentile rank
Interval
* Magnitude, Property of equal interval, no absolute 0 point. Mean, Standard Deviation and Pearson R
Ratio
* Has all the properties
Which among the following is an average of a data set?
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. All of the above
All of the above
In a 50-point item quiz in experimental
psychology, the class got an average score of 15. Meanwhile, student A got a score of 48, student B got a score of 47. On the other hand, student C obtained a score of 45, while student D got a score of 46. To know the central tendency of the class, the teacher should use:
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. None of the above
Median
Ms. Bianca gave an examination to her BSP
2D class. Supposedly, the chapters covered in the exam were chapters 1 to 3. However, the items she gave were from chapters 4 to 5, which led the majority of the class to have lower scores, and only a few people got higher scores. With this given information you would expect that the distribution
might be:
A. Left skewed
B. Right skewed
c. Positively skewed
d. Two options are correct
Two options are correct
When the results of their exams were released, Donny saw that he got a score of 90 in his Abnormal Psychology class, 92 in his Developmental Psychology class, 89 in his Psychological Assessment class, and 87 in his IOP class. Given these data, you could
infer that:
a. He performed best in Developmental Psychology.
b. He performed equally in Abnormal Psychology & Developmental Psychology.
c. He performed the least in Psychological assessment
d. None of the above.
None of the above
For his Abnormal Psychology class, Donny
got a score of 92 with a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 2. What is his z score?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 1.5
d. 3
1
formula for z score:
Score - Mean / SD
92-90/2
92-90 = 2
2/2 =1 1
For his Abnormal Psychology class, Donny
got a score of 92 with a mean of 90 and a standard deviation of 2. what is Donny’s
T score?
a. 50
b. 60
c. 70
d. 80
60
First you need to get the Z Score
=score-mean/sd
For this problem the z score is 1
Formula for T score:
(z score x 10) + 50
1x10 =10 + 50
=60
This is the standardized score with a mean
of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.
a. z score
b. T score
c. sten
d. stanine
T score
The tails of the bell curve is:
a. Asymptotic
b. Asymptomatic
c. Symptomatic
d. Symptotic
Asymptotic
Deliberately assigning what’s considered as
“pass” or “fail” on your variable (grades of the participants) is an
example of:
a. True dichotomous variable
b. Artificially Dichotomous variable
c. Dichotomous variable
d. Continuous variable
Artificially Dichotomous variable
Explanation:
True dichotomous
- two categories (male/female)
Artificially Dichotomous *Pass or fail; 75 below or 75 above
*Forcing a variable to be a dichotomy
Vera wants to know if there is a significant difference between males & females when it comes to resilience. What statistical tool should Vera use?
a. Unpaired t-test
b. Paired t-test
c. Independent t-test
d. Two options are correct
Two options are correct (A and C)
This is a component of the observed test
score that does not have anything to do with the test taker’s ability.
a. True score
b. Reliability coefficient
c. Error
d. Validity
Error
Measuring something that is not suppose to measure
While the testing was on-going, a man with
a knife was outside the room while shouting profanities and threatening the people outside. This caused the test takers to be worried and anxious.
This could serve as a:
a. Systematic error
b. Random error
c. Measurement error
d. Bias error
Random error
unpredictable
This refers to the consistency of test
scores in a measurement.
a. Reliability
b. Validity
c. Utility
d. NOTA
Reliability
Keyword: Consistency of test scores
It requires the administration of the same test to the same people twice.
a. Alternate forms reliability
b. Split-half reliability
c. Test-retest reliability
d. Inter-rater reliability
Test-retest reliability
Explanation:
Alternate forms reliability
* Different tests, two administration, same sample (set a and b)
Split-half reliability
* Same test, one administration
Donny wants to establish the reliability of
his newly constructed test. It is a multiple-choice type of test with only one correct answer, further he made sure that all of the items have a p = 0.50. What should Donny use?
a. Cronbach’s alpha
b. KR20
c. KR21
d. Spearman brown
KR21
Explanation:
p=0.50 is the item difficulty
KR20
* if we want to calculate if the item is not equal level of difficulty
KR21
* If the items are dichotomous with equal difficulty
A Cronbach’s alpha of .98 is considered as:
a. Acceptable range of reliability
b. Excellent range of reliability
c. Good range of reliability
d. Questionable
Questionable
Explanation:
.90 maybe to high and indicate a redundancy in items.
In order to measure the reliability of a behavioral checklist, Christine decided to ask three of her colleagues to use it. Afterwards, she used a statistical tool to measure the degree of
the consistency of their assessment. What method of reliability measure was used by Christine?
a. Test-retest reliability
b. Parallel forms reliability
c. Alternate forms reliability
d. Inter-rater reliability
Parallel forms reliability
Joan created a test for conscientiousness
for the first time and she is now about to assess its reliability. When she asked her mentor, she was advised to use test-retest reliability. Was her mentor correct? Choose the best answer.
a. Yes, because conscientiousness is a homogenous variable and, in such instances, test-retest should be used.
b. No, because conscientiousness is a heterogeneous variable therefore it should not be used.
c. Yes, because conscientiousness is a static variable and is stable overtime, therefore test-retest should be used.
d. No, because conscientiousness is dynamic and changes over time, internal consistency should be used.
Yes, because conscientiousness is a static variable and is stable overtime, therefore test-retest should be used.
This refers to the tailedness of a
distribution.
a. Skewness
b. Normality
c. Kurtosis
d. None of the above
Kurtosis
Explanation:
Kurtosis explains how often is the presence of the outliers
When Gino checked the distribution of the
scores of the test he made, he noticed that there were many outliers at both ends of the tail of his distribution. Thus, we could say that this
might be a what kind of distribution?
a. platykurtic
b. leptokurtic
c. normal
d. none of the above
leptokurtic
Which among the following is/are not TRUE?
I. Validity is the extent of how a test measures
what it purports to measure.
II. A test can be universally valid for all time,
all uses, and with all types of test takers.
III. The validity of a test may diminish as the
culture or the time changes.
IV. A test’s validity may not be reestablished to
the same as other populations.
a. Only I & III are false
b. Only II & IV are false
c. All are false
d. All are true
Only II & IV are false
What is the relationship of reliability
& validity?
a. A test cannot be valid if it is not reliable.
b. A test cannot be reliable if it is not valid.
c. Reliability does not limit validity.
d. There is no relationship between the two.
A test cannot be valid if it is not reliable.
Explanation:
The test should be reliable before it becomes valid
This is the validation used to check for
the appropriateness of a survey.
a. content
b. criterion
c. construct
d. face
content
To assess the validity of the newly created college admission test of Backburner University,
they have decided to use the first semester GWA of the incoming freshman students as a standard to assess if the test was actually effective. What
measure of validity will they use?
a. Content
b. Construct
c. Criterion
d. Face
Criterion
Explanation:
Judge how adequately a test scores can be used to infer an individual’s must probe standing on some measures of interest
