Introduction to Psychological Testing and Assessment

Question 1

Identify the roots of contemporary psychological testing and assessment

Answer 1

Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon published a test designed to help place Paris schoolchildren in appropriate classes (Binet-Simon scale)

Question 2

Gathering and integration of psychology-related data fro the purpose of making a psychological evaluation

Answer 2

Psychological Assessment
Accomplished through the use of tools such as tests, interviews, case studies, behavioral observation, and specially designed apparatuses and measurement procedures.

Question 3

Process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior

Answer 3

Psychological Testing

Question 4

Assessor and assess may work as partners from initial contact through final feedback is an approach called __.

Answer 4

Collaborative Psychological Assessment

In this approach, the assess is viewed as an expert about his or her current views and remembered life events.

Question 5

Approach that encourages self-discovery and new understandings through the assessment process

Answer 5

Therapeutic Psychological Assessment

a variety of collaborative psychological assessment

Question 6

A model and philosophy of interactive evaluation involving various types of assessor intervention during the assessment process

Answer 6

Dynamic Psychological Assessment
An assessor may intervene with increasingly more explicit prompts, feedbacks, or hints in order to not only evaluate what the assessee knows but to effectively modify and improve the way the assessee thinks about the problem or subject matter.

Question 7

An evaluative or diagnostic procedure or process that varies from the usual, customary or standardized way a measurement is derived

Answer 7

Alternative Assessment
Either by virtue of some special accommodation made to the assessee or by means of alternative methods designed to measure the same variables.

Question 8

Defined simply as a measuring device or procedure

Answer 8

Test

Question 9

A device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology

Answer 9

Psychological test

Question 10

Pertains to the form, plan, structure, arrangement and layout of test items as well as to related considerations such as time limits

Answer 10

Format

Question 11

A reference point, usually numerical, derived by judgment and used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications

Answer 11

Cut Score

Question 12

Science of psychological measurement

Answer 12

Psychometrics

Question 13

Reference to how consistently and how accurately a psychological test measures what it purports to measure

Answer 13

Psychometric Soundness

Reliability and Validity

Question 14

Method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange

Answer 14

Interview

Question 15

Process wherein more than one interviewer participates in the assessment of personnel

Answer 15

Panel/Board Interview

Question 16

Also called work sample assessment

Answer 16

Portfolio assessment

Question 17

Refers to records, transcripts and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form, in any media, that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts and other data and items relevant to an assessee

Answer 17

Case History Data

Question 18

Monitoring the actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding the actions

Answer 18

Behavioral Observation

Question 19

Tool of assessment wherein assesees are directed to act as if they were in a particular situation

Answer 19

Role-play Test

Question 20

Refers to the convenience and economy of time in administering, scoring and interpreting tests

Answer 20

Computer-Assisted Psychological Assessment (CAPA)

Question 21

As early as 1930, electromechanical scoring was available for at least one of this psychological test

Answer 21

Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB)

Question 22

Formal or official computer-generated account of test performance, usually presented in numeric form

Answer 22

Scoring Report
(Simple scoring report simply lists test scores; Extended scoring report contain more detailed information such as statistical analysis of how testtakers performed on individual items)

Question 23

Computer-generated account of test performance presented in numeric as well as narrative form, including an explanation of the findings

Answer 23

Interpretive Report
(Descriptive Report - brief narrative summaries;
Screening Report - narrative information and analysis or commentary regarding relationships between scores;
Consultative Report - detailed analysis of test data in professional language)

Question 24

Computer-generated account of test performance presented in a level of description and analysis found in interpretive reports but integrates into the report data from other sources such as behavioral observation or medication records

Answer 24

Integrative Report