Assessment week 1

Question 1

What Is Assessment?

Answer 1

Gathering of information to infer something about a client

Question 2

What are the steps of the assessment process?

Answer 2

• Select a tool
• Administer the tool
• Interpret the data to make a hypothesis
• Testing that hypothesis

Question 3

True or false: Assessments should only be administered at the beginning of treatment

Answer 3

False. Assessments should occur throughout treatment, not just the beginning

Question 4

What is the historical purpose of assessments?

Answer 4

• Diagnose
• Placement
• Determine services

Question 5

True or false: counselors need more than one method of assessment

Answer 5

True: Assessment is a snapshot of a point in time, and counselors need more than one method of assessment

Question 6

What are some potential misuses of assessment results?

Answer 6

• Minority groups
• Labeling/stereotyping
• High stakes decisions

Question 7

What are four general assessment methods?

Answer 7

• Interviews
• Paper/pencil (Questionnaires, Rating scales)
• Behavioral observations
• Direct trials of ability (intelligence and academic tests)

Question 8

True or false: assessment methods can provide a comprehensive explanation of behavior.

Answer 8

False: all methods provide a sample of behavior.

Question 9

What are the two types of assessment modalities?

Answer 9

Standardized and non-standardized

Question 10

What is a standardized assessment modality?

Answer 10

Fixed instructions for administering and scoring

Question 11

What is the difference between objective and subjective/projective assessment?

Answer 11

Objective assessment scores based on predetermined procedures; subjective/projective assessment uses ambiguous stimuli to encourage client
to reveal something they wouldn’t if questioned directly; usually not based on predetermined procedures

Question 12

What is the difference between ethics and laws?

Answer 12

• Ethics: body of principles addressing proper conduct
• Laws: rules that govern counseling and assessment

Question 13

What are the rights of test takers?

Answer 13

1. Right to privacy (informed consent, relevance)
2. Right to assessment results
3. Right to confidentiality
4. Right to least stigmatizing label

Question 14

What is fairness in assessment?

Answer 14

Efforts to create equitable experiences for test takers, free from bias

Question 15

What is bias in assessment?

Answer 15

Construct irrelevant-factors that can influence a group’s performance

Question 16

What are examples of test bias?

Answer 16

1. Content bias
2. Internal structure
3. Instrument-criterion relationships

Question 17

What is content bias?

Answer 17

Content not equally familiar to all groups

Question 18

What is internal structure bias?

Answer 18

• Internal consistency
• Factor structure

Question 19

What is instrument-criterion relationship bias?

Answer 19

• Intercept (Correlation is the same, but mean differences in instrument)
• Slope (Correlation is different)