Chapter 1: Psychological Testing and Assessment Flashcards
How much a person has learned.
Educational Testing
What can be learned about a person.
Psychological Assessment
When did the contemporary psychological testing and assesment started?
Early twentieth century in France
Who published a test designed to help place Paris school children in appropriate classes?
Alfred Binet (and a colleague)
Who was with Alfred Binet as his colleague when they created a test that would help school personnel make placement decisions?
Theodore Simon
What’s another term for Binet-Simon test?
“Intelligence test.”
Who developed a refined method of scoring Binet’s test?
William Stern
What did William Stern called the test he developed?
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test
It was the term used to refer to everything from the administration of a test to the interpretation of a test score.
Testing
It is the gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation that is accomplished through the use of tools such as tests, interviews, case studies, behavioral observation, and specially designed apparatuses and measurement procedures.
Psychological Assessment
It is the process if measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior.
Psychological Testing
It is a variety of assesment that helps individual understand and solve their problems.
Therapeutic Psychological Assessment
It is a variety of assesment that make use of tests and other tools to evaluate abilities and skills relevant to success or failure in a school or pre-school context.
Educational Assessment
TRUE OR FALSE.
Is testing a part of assessment?
TRUE
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
It is 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 or people conducting the evaluation.
Remote Assessment
He identified problematic behavioral patterns using the smartphone.
Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev
It refers to the “in the moment” evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the exact time and place that they occur.
Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
What is the first step in the process of assessment?
Referral
The assessor and assessee may work as “partners” from initial contact through final feedback.
Collaborative Psychological Assessment
It refers to an interactive approach to psychological assessment that usually follows a model of 1) evaluation, 2) intervention of some sort, and 3) evaluation.
Dynamic Assessment
It is a measuring device of procedure.
Test
It is a device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology (such as intelligence, aptitude, interests, attitudes, or values.)
Psychological Test
It pertains to the form, plan, structure, arrangement, and layout of the test items as well as to related considerations such as time limits.
Format
It is a code or summary statement that reflects an evaluation of performance on a test, task, interview etc.
Score
It is the process of assigning such evaluation codes or statements to performance on test, tasks, etc.
Scoring
It is a reference point, usually numerical, derived by judgement and used to divide a set of data into 2 or more class.
Cut Score
It is the science of psychological measurement.
Psychometrics
It is the usefulness or practical value that a test or other tool of assessment has for a particular purpose.
Psychometric Utility
It is a method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange.
Interview
It is a type of interview where more than one (1) interviewer participates in the assessment; any idiosyncratic biases of a lone interviewer will be minimized.
Panel Interview (Board Interview)
It is a therapeutic dialogue that combines person-centered listening skills such as openness and empathy, with the use of cognition-altering technique designed to positively affect motivation and effect therapeutic change.
Motivational Interviewing
These are your where your work products are—whether retained on paper, canvas, film, videos, audio.
Portfolio
It contains records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserves archival information, official and informal accounts.
Case History Data
It is a report or illustrative account concerning a person or an event that was compiled on the basis of case history data.
Case Study
it contains rich case history material on collective decision making that did not always result in the best decisionm
Groupthink
It is a tool of assessment wherein assessees are directed to act as if they were in a particular situation.
Role-play Test
It is defined as the basis of archival records, artifacts, and interviews previously conducted with the deceased assessee or people who knew the person well.
Psychological Autopsy
It is a description or conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and opinion.
Diagnosis
It is a tool of assessment used to help narrow down and identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention.
Diagnostic Test
It is typically non-systematic assessment that leads to the formation of an opinion or attitude.
Informal Evaluation
It is loss of cognitive functioning (which may affect memory, thinking, reasoning, psychomotor speed, attention and related abilities, as well as personality) that occurs as the result of damage to or loss of brain cells.
Dementia
It is a cognitive functioning that mimics dementia.
Pseudodementia
It is a discipline that focuses on understanding the role of psychological variables in the onset, course, treatment, and prevention of illness.
Health Psychology
It refers to the form, sheet, or booklet, on which a test taker’s responses entered.
Protocol
It is a working relationship between the examiner and the examinee.
Rapport
It is typically
accomplished by means of some
accommodation made to the assessee. The
verb to accommodate is defined as “to
adapt, adjust, or make suitable.” In the
context of psychological testing and
assessment.
Alternate Assessment
It is defined as
the adaptation of a test, procedure, or
situation, or the substitution of one test for
another, to make the assessment more
suitable for an assessee with exceptional
needs.
Accommodation
It usually contain only a
brief description of the test and seldom
contain the kind of detailed technical
information that a prospective user might
require, although publishers are increasingly
providing more information in online
catalogues, presumably because they are
not limited by the space or the cost of
printing.
Test Catalogues
It is a detailed information
concerning the development of a particular
test and technical information relating to it
should be found in the test manual, which usually can be purchased from the test
publisher.
Test Manuals
These are books devoted to an
in-depth discussion of a particular test can systematically provide students of assessment, as well as assessment
professionals, with the thoughtful insights
and actionable knowledge of more
experienced practitioners and test users.
Professional books
It provides detailed
information for each test listed, including
test publisher, test author, test purpose,
intended test population, and test
administration time.
Reference Volumes
Articles in current
journals may contain reviews of the test,
updated or independent studies of its
psychometric soundness, or examples of
how the instrument was used in either
research or an applied context.
Journal Articles
It is which
evaluates accomplishment or the
degree of learning that has taken place.
Achievement Test
Scoring may be done on-site (______
__________) or conducted at some
central location (______
_________.)
local processing, central processing
It usually contain only a brief description of the test and seldom contain the kind of detailed technical information that a prospective user might require, although publishers are increasingly providing more information in online catalogues, presumably because they are not limited by the space or the cost of printing.
Test Catalogues
It is a detailed information concerning the development of a particular test and technical information relating to it should be found in the test manual, which usually can be purchased from the test
publisher.
Test Manuals
These are books devoted to an in-depth discussion of a particular test can
systematically provide students of
assessment, as well as assessment
professionals, with the thoughtful insights
and actionable knowledge of more experienced practitioners and test users.
Professional Books
Provides detailed information for each test listed, including test publisher, test author, test purpose, intended test population, and test administration time.
Reference Volumes
Articles in current journals may contain reviews of the test, updated or independent studies of its psychometric soundness, or examples of how the instrument was used in either research or an applied context.
Journal Articles
There are abstracts of articles, original
articles, and links to other useful websites. ERIC strives to provide balanced
information concerning educational
assessment and to provide resources that
encourage responsible test use.
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