Assessment Jeopardy questions Flashcards
What is the definition of reliability?
The consistency of a measure
What type of reliability concerns the consistency between two people?
Inter-rater reliability
True or false: Ethics are the same as laws
False
What is the definition of validity?
The measure assesses what it is supposed to measure
What is the average of the psychometric distribution?
The mean
True or false: Grade and age-based norms are easy to use and understand
False: they are often misinterpreted as reflecting the age or grade a child is at rather than understanding that they provide information about whether a child is below the age or grade level we would expect for their current age or grade
Which right is the right to determine what information is shared?
The right to privacy
Which type of validity determines whether the midterm assesses the material you’ve learned in class?
Content validity
What is the potential range of a correlation coefficient?
+ or -1
What level does a clinician with a master’s degree have for accessing assessment measures?
Level B
Reliability is a ___ but not ___ condition for validity
Necessary; sufficient
What right is the right to keep information private from others?
Right to confidentiality
What type of validity means clients feel like they know what they are being asked about (i.e., does the measure seem to ask what it says it does)
Face validity
What type of scale is a Likert-type questionnaire where responses are “never, sometimes, often”?
Ordinal - rank order
True or False: The norming sample doesn’t matter as long as the measure demonstrates good reliability and validity
False: If the norming sample is not representative of your client, then the reliability and validity evidence may not apply to your client
Which type of reliability concerns giving a measure at two different points in time?
Test-retest reliability
What is the right to determine with whom information is shared?
The right to confidentiality
Which type of validity concerns predicting some outcome for a measure?
Criterion-related validity
Why do we use standard scores?
Raw scores are meaningless without context
What influences a decision whether to over- or under-identify clients at risk for suicide?
Consequences of the decision made as a result of the assessment
Which type of reliability concerns how well all items of a measure correlate with one another and with the total scale?
Internal consistency
Which right concerns keeping assessment measures secure?
The right to confidentiality
Which type of validity is demonstrated by showing measure of personality is not related to shoe size?
Discriminant validity
In what type of distribution are mean, median and mode the same?
A normal distribution
True or false: It would be acceptable to use a less expensive measure that has somewhat lower reliability and validity estimates than a measure that is more expensive with stronger reliability and validity estimates
True: incremental utility says that at times we at times we may use instruments that have relatively lower reliability/validity estimates but that are more easily accessible/less expensive than a measure with stronger evidence of reliability and validity.
