Chapter 1: Introduction Flashcards
In 1905, he designed a test to help place Paris schoolchildren in appropriate classes.
Alfred Binet
In 1917, it used psychological testing to screen large numbers of recruits quickly for intellectual and emotional problems.
World War 1
Why is assessment better than testing?
Assessment acknowledges that tests are only one type of tool used by professionals, and that the value of a test is intimately linked to the knowledge, skill, and expertise of the assessor.
It is the use of evaluative tools to draw conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as they existed at some point in time prior to the assessment.
Retrospective Assessment
What are the three varieties of assessment?
- Retrospective assessment
- Remote assessment
- Ecological momentary assessment (EMA)
It refers to the use of tools of psychological evaluation to gather data and draw conclusions about a subject who is not in physical proximity to the person/people conducting the evaluation.
Remote Assessment
It refers to the “in the moment” evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the very time and place that they occur.
Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
It is the gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation that is accompanied through the use of tools such as tests, interviews, case studies, behavioral observation, and specifically designed apparatuses and measurement procedures.
Psychological Assessment
The process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample behavior.
Psychological Testing
It is an approach to assessment wherein the assessor and assessee may work as partners from initial contact through final feedback.
Collaborative Psychological Assessment
It is an interactive approach to psychological assessment that usually follows a model of evaluation-intervention of some sort-evaluation.
Dynamic Assessment
This approach to assessment provides a means for evaluating how the assesse processes or benefits from some type of intervention.
Dynamic Assessment
It is a measuring device or procedure designed to measure a variable related to that modifier.
Test
It is a device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology and it almost always involves analysis of a sample behavior.
Psychological Test
It refers to the code or summary statements that reflects the evaluation of performance on a test.
Score
The process of assigning such evaluative codes or statements to performance on tests, tasks, interviews, or some other behavior samples.
Scoring
It is a reference point, usually numerical, derived by judgment and used to divide a set of data into two or more classification.
Cut Score (Cutoff)
It refers to how consistently, how accurately a psychological test measures what it purports to measure, and the usefulness or practical value that a test or other tool of assessment has for a particular purpose.
Psychometric Soundness or Technical Quality
It is the science of psychological measurement.
Psychometrics
It refers to the usefulness or practiced value that a test or other tool of assessment has for a particular purpose.
Psychometric Utility
It is the method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange.
Interview
It is a therapeutic dialogue that combines person-centered listening skills with the use of cognition-altering techniques designed to positively affect motivation and effect therapeutic change.
Motivational Interviewing
It includes a sample of one’s ability and accomplishment or work products.
Portfolio
It refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and items relevant to an assessee.
Case History Data
