Finals Exam Flashcards
True or False: The purpose of gathering integration of psychology-related data is to make a “psychological assessment.”
False - “psychological evaluation”
True or False: “Testing” typically answer the referral question, solve a problem or arrive at a decision through the use of tools of evaluation.
False - “Assessment”
True or False: Tests differ in their administration, scoring, and interpretation procedures.
True
True or False: Modifications (accommodations) may need to be made in a psychological test (or measurement procedure) in order for an evaluation to proceed.
True
True or False: “Common language” between assessor and assessee is a most basic part of the assessment.
False - “Communication”
Generally refers to every process from administration to the interpretation of the scores.
Testing
A concept that generally focuses on processes rather than simply the results of those processing.
Assessment
A collaborative approach to assessment that encourage self-discovery and new understanding throughout the assessment process.
Therapeutic Psychological Assessment
An approach to a psychological assessment that usually follows an evaluation-intervention-evaluation assessment process.
Dynamic Assessment
The process of assigning evaluative codes or statements to functioning on tests, tasks, interviews, and other behavioral samples.
Scoring
Tools of psychological assessment in gathering information through reciprocal exchange.
Interview as tool
Tool of psychological assessment in gathering information through preserved archival information, official and informational accounts and other data and items relevant to a client.
Case History Data
Tool of psychological assessment in gathering information through actions from simulated situation.
Role-play
A party in the assessment enterprise which refers to the client-subject of an assessment or evaluation.
Test Taker
Settings wherein achievement assessments are conducted.
Educational settings
To know the improvement of the client in terms of adjustment, productivity, etc.
Counseling Settings
A part of an alternative assessment tools are used to help screen or diagnose behavior problems.
Clinical settings
A part of an alternate assessment process that is provided to cater or suitably meet people with disabilities or those with exceptional needs.
Accommodation
Every phrase below is a general type of accommodation needed for a psychological test (or measurement procedure) evaluation to proceed, EXCEPT; a. The form of the test as presented to the test-taker, b. Modification of the environment wherein test is conducted, c. The way responses to the test were obtained, d. Practicality and flexibility of the test users.
The way responses to the test were obtained
Reference source (about published tests and assessment related issues) that pertains to a brief description of a test’s technical information for a prospective user.
Test manual
Reference source about the detail information of a particular test development and its technical information.
Test catalogue
Developed the product-moment correlation technique.
Karl Pearson
A significant individual in the field of measurement who first quantified individual differences between people, contributing to the development of many contemporary tools of psychological assessment.
Sir Francis Galton
A significant individual in the field of measurement who pioneered the use of the statistical concept central to psychological experimentation and testing.
Sir Francis Galton
Coined the term, “mental test,” and brought statistics for mental testing.
James McKeen Cattell
In the language of research, this refers to the collective influences of all factors on a test core that are beyond those specifically measured by the test.
Error
Continuous scale measures the following EXCEPT: a. GPA, b. Temperature, c. Birth Order, d. Level of Anxiety
Birth Order
Scale of measurement which has no absolute zero point.
Interval Scale
Class intervals replace the actual test scores.
Grouped Frequency Distribution
Scores are listed alongside the number of times each score occurred.
Simple Frequency Distribution
Is a straightforward, unmodified accounting of performance that is usually numerical.
Raw Score
A set of test scores arrayed for recording or study.
Distribution
A measure of Central Tendency that is denoted by the symbol X
Arithmetic mean
It is determined by ordering the scores in a list of magnitude, ascending or descending order.
Median
An indication of how scores in a distribution are scattered or dispersed.
Variability
This describes the steepness of a distribution with reference to its center.
Kurtosis
This is equal to the square root of the variance.
Standard deviation
A type of distribution showing relatively few scores falling at the high end of the distribution.
Positively skewed
A type of distribution showing relatively few scores falling at the low end of the distribution.
Negatively skewed
A portion of the pool of people deemed to be representative of the whole population.
Sample
The process of administering a test to a representative sample of test-taker for the purpose of establishing norms.
Standardization
A number that provides an index of the strength of the relationship between two things.
Correlation coefficient
Most widely used measure of correlation.
Pearson r
The following are sources of error variance EXCEPT: a. Construction of test, b. Test Responses, c. Test administration, d. Test Scoring and Interpretation
Test Responses
The estimate of test-retest reliability when the interval between testing is greater than 6 months.
Coefficient of stability
A reliability estimate gained by correlating pairs of scores from the same people, on the same test on two different administrations.
Test-retest reliability
A judgment that concerns how relevant the test items appear to be.
Face Validity
Describes a judgment of how adequately a “test samples behavior representative” of a wide-ranging behavior that the test was designed to measure.
Content Validity
A judgment that concerns the appropriateness of inferences drawn from test scores.
Construct validity
A factor inherent in a test that systematically prevents accuracy.
Bias
A judgment resulting from the intentional and international misuse of a rating scale.
Rating Error
An approach that focuses on the relationship between the test-takers answer to an individual test item.
Item Response Theory
Discrete variables are measured by:
Nominal Scale
This is equal to the mean of the squares of the difference between the scores in a distribution.
Variance
