Assessment Flashcards

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Woodcock-Johnson

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Measures grade level competency used primarily for achievement rather than intelligence

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SAT/GRE etc.

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Measures potential for further study

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Armed Services Vocational Assessment Battery (ASVAB)

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Measures vocational abilities and interests (used for military role placement)

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)

Stanford-Binet Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT-2)

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Measures intelligence

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Millon Inventories

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Measures broad range of psychopathology

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Caliper Personality Inventory (CPI),
Cattell 16 Personality Factors (16PF),
NEO personality inventory (NEO PI)

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Measures healthy personality

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Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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Measures unconscious motives

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Porteous Maze, Cattell Culture Fair Intelligence Tests

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Nonverbal performance

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Intelligence

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Measures IQ, also known as mental ability - WAIS, WISC, Stanford Binet, Slosson

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Aptitude

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Measures potential ability to acquire knowledge/skills
SAT, ACT, GRE, MAT, MCAT, LSAT

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Achievement

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Measures knowledge and skills related to certain content areas-
Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), Kauffman,
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT),
Woodcock-Johnson

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Achievement Test

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What has a person learned How ready are they to progress to the next grade level (SOLs, Woodcock Johnson)

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Aptitude test

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What is a person capable of learning (GRE, SAT, MAT, LSAT, MCAT, ASVAB)

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Intelligence test

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What is the persons overall crystallized and fluid intellectual ability? (Wechsler, Stanford Binet, Kauffman)

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Objective Personality Test

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What is a persons objective character, temperament, mental health (MMPI, Millon , Myers Briggs, California Personality Inventory, 16PF, NEO PI)

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Projective Personality test

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What are the persons unconscious motivations and hidden character (Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test)

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Observational Tests

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Structured and unstructured interviewing

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Francis Galton

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One the first to employ questionnaires and surveys to gather data about human populations

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James McKeen Cattell

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First Psychologist professor, believed that study of human behavior needed quantitative evidence common to other sciences

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Alfred Binet

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French psychologist developed testing

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Binet and Simon

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Developed the first intelligence test (1905)

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Norm referenced test

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Comparison between test takers. Where scores fall relative to each other. Often, your scores are compared to a norm group Uses normal curve- T scores , Z scores, and percentile ranks Examples MMPI, Wechsler Intelligence, SAT, GRE

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Criterion referenced tests

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Where scores fall relative to the content of the test Scores are assessed according to an established standard; not interested in how scores compare to other test takers.

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Face validity

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Do test items make sense for this test, to the common No statistics used

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Content validity

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Do items represent the construct Uses subject matter experts; no statistics used

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Criterion related validity

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Concurrent or Predictive validity association with another measure, e.g., Beck Depression Inventory scores and depression diagnosis

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Construct validity

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Convergent - do alike tests correlate together (e.g., Beck Depression Inventory & Hamilton Depression Rating Discriminate- do unalike tests not correlate together (e.g., Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory) Factor analysis is used to detect subscales

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Criterion related validity coefficient

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Closer to .9; should be above .7

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Divergent Construct validity coefficient

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Should be below .5

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Convergent Construct validity coefficient

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Should be above .5

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Standard error of measurement (SEM)

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Standard deviation of a person’s repeated test scores