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📍evaluates accomplishments or the degree of learning that has taken place. These tests are commonly administered near the end of the different grading periods.
📍fluid
📍relies on formal learning

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Achievement test

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📍 Every student’s performance and progress should be accounted for, and _ offer a means of assessing the learning of students who cannot participate in the general assessments.
📍EX: Student reading records
Math samples
Student projects or products
Notes from parents, teachers, specialists, and classmates
Teacher data, including charts and graphs
Other tests, which are referred to as performance events

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Alternate assessment

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the high-level reasoning process involved in the application of psychological procedures

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Psychological assessment

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first intelligence test was developed by

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Binet and Simon

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Categories with proper order fall under

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Ordinal

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The _ was made to assess to motivational adjustment of army recruits in attempt to avoid accepting applicants who are prone to traumatic stress symptoms. This test never get past the experimental stage ( pilot testing stage )

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Personal data sheet

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Results of a client on a psychological test

A should not be interpreted by a person
B should be interpreted in isolation
C should always be interpreted by a computer
D should not be interpreted in isolation

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D.

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📍It is employed by assessment professionals, is defined as monitoring the actions of others or oneself by visual or academic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions.
📍therapeutic intervention is extremely useful in institutional settings such as school, hospitals, prisons, and group homes.

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Behavioral Observation

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📍assistance computers provide to the test user, not the testtaker

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CAPA (Computer-assisted psychological assessment)

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📍refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserve archival information

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Case History Data

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Before administering a psychological test, a psychologist ensure that..

A the test has local norms
B the test does not have any copyright restrictions
C the test has been reviewed in the Mental Measurements Yearbook
D the test is appropriate for use with the particular client in terms of his/her demographics

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D

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The first theory of intelligence was developed by

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Spearman

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Transforming scores on psychological tests is done primarily to ….

A protect the privacy of the test taker
B aid interpretation of the score
C make the scores more manageable
D make the scores available for research

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B.

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The flynn effect refers to the observation that

A the raw score mean on intelligence tests has remained constant over the years
B the standard deviation of scores on intelligence tests has remained constant over time
C the raw score mean on intelligence tests has been increasing over the years
D the raw score mean on intelligence tests has been decreasing over the years

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C.

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In test construction
A random samples from the general population are always employed
B epresentative samples from the population of interest are employed
C accidental or convenience samples have been found to be as good as any
D random samples are employed for the initial analysis but not subsequently

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B

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Majority of the immigrants evaluated using the assessment procedures employed by Henry Goddard failed

A he test was in English and majority of the assessees were not well-versed with the English language
B Most of the immigrants did not finish schooling, making it difficult for them to pass the assessment.
C The immigrants did not possess the minimum amount of intellectual ability to be allowed to enter the United States
D All of these

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A.

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The internal consistency of a test would be high if

A it included items that related to different aspects of the construct to be measured
B it included items that related to different constructs
C each item was drawn from a different item domain
D all the items measure the same construct

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D.

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A distribution of income is highly skewed. Which measure of central tendency are you likely to employ for the purpose of characterizing income?

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D

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The first step in constructing a psychological test is to determine the sample size to which the test is administered
B conduct quantitative item analysis
C identify a likely publisher for the test 4
D be clear about the construct or constructs to be assessed with the test

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D.

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relevant in developing achievement tests

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Content validity

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not a commonly used heading in a psychological report?

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Relevant theory

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assessment devices used for evaluative purposes

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Summative assessment

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Uniformity of administration procedures is the definition of

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standardization

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in a(n)_test the objective is to determine where the examinee stands
with respect to very lightly defined educatonal standards

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Centerion-referenced

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It ine distribution of test scores is positively skewed then we can say
A that a lot of test takers obtained a low score
B a lot of lest takers obtaifted an average score
C a lot of test lakers obtained a high score
D the test is composed of items with high difficulty index

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A

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A test of scholastic autitude is administered at the beginning of first semester and the academic performance of the sample is examined at the end of the first year of university lie two semesters later) A failure to find a correlation between lest scores and academic performance indicates
A lack at face valoity
B lack of inter-rater rehability
C the test lacks concument velicity
D the test lacks precictive validity

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D

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Dr. Gertrude correlates scores on a test (Test 1) with scores an other tests rant Test 2 and Test 3). The analysis demonstrates that the scores on Test 1 correlate highly with scores on Test 2 but do not correlate with scores on Test 3. This type of analysis is used to determine
A content validity
B construct valdity
C inter-rater reliability
D predictive validity

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B

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Professor Nando conducted an tem analysis to examine the difficulty of the last tems ltem no 15 had ant item-ddficul index of 80 What does this mean?
A 20% of the testakers got the item correct. Hence, the ilem is easy
B 80% of the testrakers got the item wrong. Hence the item is difficult
C 80% of the testakers get the item correct, Hence, the tem is easy
D 20% of the testtakers got the item correct. Hence, the tem is difficult.

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C