Midterm: Test Administration

Question 1

How to establish and maintain rapport?

Answer 1

interact comfortably with examinee, use frequent eye contact, use small talk to ease transition between subtests, avoid small talk during subtest, know directions and materials to avoid awkwardness, use precise wording, subtle use of stopwatch, use abbreviations in recording response

Question 2

Appropriate feedback and encouragement

Answer 2

praise and encourage examinee’s effort rather than the response, avoid giving feedback on correctness of response, give encouragement throughout not just when struggling

Question 3

Modificaitons

Answer 3

Modifications to the standardized procedure to accommodate examinee limitations may invalidate scores and use of norms (consider using another test); usually not much is interpretable; modification of time nullifies the norms; translation without reforming causes similar problems
**give as is and note that their special circumstance may have altered the response

Question 4

WISC vs WAIS

Answer 4

Age 16; below average use WISC, above use WAIS, if average use either (better norms is probably best)

Question 5

How to find floor

Answer 5

If you start with number 4, then go to 5 and they get it wrong, you go to 3, if they get 3 right you go back to 6 (2 in a row–3 and 4)

If they go up from 4 and 5, then you give them +3 at the end

If you get 4 wrong, give 5, then go back to 3

You are establishing floor (2 consecutive right answers) and ceiling (3 consecutive wrong)

Question 6

What to do if unsure if a response is correct?

Answer 6

keep administering until discontinuation rule has been met

Question 7

How to record responses

Answer 7

record verbatim, use shorthands

Question 8

What subtests are timed?

Answer 8

Time limit per item:

1. Block design (PRI)
2. Arithmetic (WMI)
3. Visual puzzles (PRI)
4. Figure weights (PRI)
5. Picture completion (PRI)

Time limit for subtest:

6. Symbol search (PSI)
7. Coding (PSI)
8. Cancellation (PSI)

Question 9

How to time

Answer 9

unobtrusively, start at end of instructions, note time precisely, note time but keep it going for self correction, if unclear ask whether they are finished

Question 10

When to query?

Answer 10

1. When a response to too vague or ambiguous
2. When there is a Q in the booklet
3. For clarification

• Use Q on record form
• Use positive, neutral language (tell me more about that, explain what you mean)

Question 11

When to repeat items? What tests have special repeating rules?

Answer 11

• repeat questions or instructions if examinee appears to not understand
• re-adminster early items with dk responses if not timed, but then take it at face value later
• one repeat of arithmetic, continue timing
• no repeats of digit span or letter-number sequencing

Question 12

What is teaching the task?

Answer 12

allowed only when specified in the instruction (i.e., providing correction for early errors), use manual wording