Exam 1 Part 11

Question 1

Refers to the degree that the assessment reflects what it’s supposed to measure; does a test do what it says it’s going to do

Answer 1

Validity

Question 2

Why is it invalid to say that a client has age appropriate language skills after completing a receptive vocabulary test and receiving an age appropriate score?

Answer 2

Vocabulary is only one aspect of language skills; can make invalid diagnoses and invalid treatment

Question 3

What goes wrong when basing decisions off of an invalid test measure?

Answer 3

Waste of time and money, can make the wrong diagnosis, make incorrect decisions

Question 4

Does the test measure examine what it says it does?

Answer 4

Construct validity

Question 5

How well does the test provide items to assess the construct theory of the test?

Answer 5

Content validity

Question 6

Does this test “play nice” with others of similar design and content

Answer 6

Criterion-related validity

Question 7

Can two different people or one person give the test on two different days and receive similar results?

Answer 7

Test reliability

Question 8

What types of behaviors do we observe are transient and/or open to subjective judgement?

Answer 8

Children’s behavior (if they’re shy or have language disorder), dialect, intelligibility, topic changes

Question 9

Refers to the agreement of two independent judges on the occurrence and type of responses performed by a client

Answer 9

Interjudge reliability

Question 10

Can we expect to get the same responses during an assessment one one day and retesting them weeks/months later?

Answer 10

Test-retest reliability

Question 11

Minor adjustments to a testing situation that does NOT compromise a test’s standardized procedure

Answer 11

Accommodations

Question 12

Changes to the test’s standardized administration protocol

Answer 12

Modification

Question 13

What is an example of a test modification?

Answer 13

Test giver re-words or simplifies question, giving extra test time, verbal and visual cues

Question 14

What is an example of a test accommodation?

Answer 14

Large-print versions, aide assists with recorded messages

Question 15

Exact age of a person in years, months, and days

Answer 15

Chronological age

Question 16

How do you find chronological age?

Answer 16

Subtract birth date from test date (year, month, day)

Question 17

Why is chronological age important?

Answer 17

Able to convert raw scores into meaningful scores when interpreting data

Question 18

Total number of correct responses or total number of errors (depends on the test)

Answer 18

Raw score

Question 19

Starting point for test administration and scoring; typically a starting point is based on a client’s age

Answer 19

Basal score

Question 20

Ending point for test administration and scoring; typically determined by a requisite number of consecutively incorrect responses or a requisite number of incorrect responses in a group of a certain size

Answer 20

Ceiling score