CHAPTER 5: TYPES OF TEST Flashcards
Test can be broadly group into two camps:
GROUP TESTS & INDIVIDUAL TEST
Are largely pencil-and-paper measures suitable to testing of large group of persons at the same time.
Group Test
are instruments which by their design and purpose must be administered one on one.
Individual Test
An important advantage of individual test is that
the examiner can gauge the level of motivation of the subject and assess the relevance of other factors.
Other test Classifications
MVS. COINS
- MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE v. TYPICAL PERFORMANCE
- VERBAL v.PERFORMANCE
- SPEED v. POWER
- COGNITIVE v. AFFECTIVE
- OBJECTIVE v. NON-OBJECTIVE
- INDIVIDUAL v. GROUP
- NORM-REFERENCED v. CRITERION-REFERENCED
- SPEED v. POWER
MAIN TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST
- INTELLIGENCE TESTS
- APTITUDE TESTS
- ACHIEVEMENT TEST
TWO VARIETIES OF APTITUDE TEST
- Single Aptitude Tests
* Multiple Aptitude Tests
Appraise only one Ability
Single Aptitude tests
Provide profile of scores for a number of aptitudes.
Multiple aptitude test batteries
(OTHER TEST CLASSIFICATION)
Efficiency of administration
Indivial v. group
(OTHER TEST CLASSIFICATION)
Method of scoring the test
Objective v. Non-objective
(OTHER TEST CLASSIFICATION)
time limit of a test
Speed v. Power
(OTHER TEST CLASSIFICATION)
Content or task presented to examinees
Verbal materials
Performance test require manipulation of objects
Verbal v. Performance
(OTHER TEST CLASSIFICATION)
Content or process
Cognitive v. Affective
Attempt to quantify the processes and products of mental activity and maybe classified as measures of achievement and aptitude.
Cognitive tests
