Introduction to Psychological Testing and Assessment Flashcards
Identify the roots of contemporary psychological testing and assessment
Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon published a test designed to help place Paris schoolchildren in appropriate classes (Binet-Simon scale)
Gathering and integration of psychology-related data fro the purpose of making a psychological evaluation
Psychological Assessment
Accomplished through the use of tools such as tests, interviews, case studies, behavioral observation, and specially designed apparatuses and measurement procedures.
Process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior
Psychological Testing
Assessor and assess may work as partners from initial contact through final feedback is an approach called __.
Collaborative Psychological Assessment
In this approach, the assess is viewed as an expert about his or her current views and remembered life events.
Approach that encourages self-discovery and new understandings through the assessment process
Therapeutic Psychological Assessment
a variety of collaborative psychological assessment
A model and philosophy of interactive evaluation involving various types of assessor intervention during the assessment process
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.
An evaluative or diagnostic procedure or process that varies from the usual, customary or standardized way a measurement is derived
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.
Defined simply as a measuring device or procedure
Test
A device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology
Psychological test
Pertains to the form, plan, structure, arrangement and layout of test items as well as to related considerations such as time limits
Format
A reference point, usually numerical, derived by judgment and used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications
Cut Score
Science of psychological measurement
Psychometrics
Reference to how consistently and how accurately a psychological test measures what it purports to measure
Psychometric Soundness
Reliability and Validity
Method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange
Interview
Process wherein more than one interviewer participates in the assessment of personnel
Panel/Board Interview
Also called work sample assessment
Portfolio assessment
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
Case History Data
Monitoring the actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding the actions
Behavioral Observation
Tool of assessment wherein assesees are directed to act as if they were in a particular situation
Role-play Test
Refers to the convenience and economy of time in administering, scoring and interpreting tests
Computer-Assisted Psychological Assessment (CAPA)
As early as 1930, electromechanical scoring was available for at least one of this psychological test
Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB)
Formal or official computer-generated account of test performance, usually presented in numeric form
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)
Computer-generated account of test performance presented in numeric as well as narrative form, including an explanation of the findings
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)
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
Integrative Report
