Assessment Flashcards
Woodcock-Johnson
Measures grade level competency used primarily for achievement rather than intelligence
SAT/GRE etc.
Measures potential for further study
Armed Services Vocational Assessment Battery (ASVAB)
Measures vocational abilities and interests (used for military role placement)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
Stanford-Binet Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT-2)
Measures intelligence
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Millon Inventories
Measures broad range of psychopathology
Caliper Personality Inventory (CPI),
Cattell 16 Personality Factors (16PF),
NEO personality inventory (NEO PI)
Measures healthy personality
Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Measures unconscious motives
Porteous Maze, Cattell Culture Fair Intelligence Tests
Nonverbal performance
Intelligence
Measures IQ, also known as mental ability - WAIS, WISC, Stanford Binet, Slosson
Aptitude
Measures potential ability to acquire knowledge/skills
SAT, ACT, GRE, MAT, MCAT, LSAT
Achievement
Measures knowledge and skills related to certain content areas-
Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), Kauffman,
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT),
Woodcock-Johnson
Achievement Test
What has a person learned How ready are they to progress to the next grade level (SOLs, Woodcock Johnson)
Aptitude test
What is a person capable of learning (GRE, SAT, MAT, LSAT, MCAT, ASVAB)
Intelligence test
What is the persons overall crystallized and fluid intellectual ability? (Wechsler, Stanford Binet, Kauffman)
Objective Personality Test
What is a persons objective character, temperament, mental health (MMPI, Millon , Myers Briggs, California Personality Inventory, 16PF, NEO PI)
Projective Personality test
What are the persons unconscious motivations and hidden character (Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test)
Observational Tests
Structured and unstructured interviewing
Francis Galton
One the first to employ questionnaires and surveys to gather data about human populations
James McKeen Cattell
First Psychologist professor, believed that study of human behavior needed quantitative evidence common to other sciences
Alfred Binet
French psychologist developed testing
Binet and Simon
Developed the first intelligence test (1905)
Norm referenced test
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
Criterion referenced tests
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.
Face validity
Do test items make sense for this test, to the common No statistics used
Content validity
Do items represent the construct Uses subject matter experts; no statistics used
Criterion related validity
Concurrent or Predictive validity association with another measure, e.g., Beck Depression Inventory scores and depression diagnosis
Construct validity
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
Criterion related validity coefficient
Closer to .9; should be above .7
Divergent Construct validity coefficient
Should be below .5
Convergent Construct validity coefficient
Should be above .5
Standard error of measurement (SEM)
Standard deviation of a person’s repeated test scores
