PSYCH ASSESSMENT Flashcards
Administration Procedures
It requires an active and knowledgeable test administrator.
One-to-one basis
Varieties of Assessment
It is the “in the moment” evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the very time and place that they occur.
(i.e., through smartphones)
Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)
Varieties of Assessment
It evaluates abilities and skills relevant in school context.
It involves use of evaluative tools relevant to the success of failure.
Educational Assessment
Other Test
It compares an individual’s performance to the performance of a well-defined reference group.
Norm-Referenced Test
Personality Test
It elicit personal beliefs and opinions.
Attitude Test
Testing & Assessment
Highly individualized. More on the process rather than the results.
“why”
Psychological Assessment
The practical value and usefulness of a test relative to the particular purpose.
Psychometric Utility
Other Tests
It is used to evaluate a person’s knowledge and abilities in a specific trade or craft.
Often encountered in vocational training or employment settings.
Trade Test
It focus on practical skills and knowledge specific to a trade.
Other Tests
It is used to evaluate how well your brain functions.
It is a battery of tests designed to measure different cognitive skills and identify potential weaknesses or strengths. (e.g., attention, memory, language, learning, etc.)
Neuropsychological Test
Testing & Assessment
It requires an educated selection of tools of evaluation, skill in evaluation, and thoughtful organization and integration of data from different sources.
Psychological Assessment
Psychological Test
A test that assess what a person can do.
Ability Test
or “Maximal Performance Test”
It is the process of assigning scores to performances.
Scoring
It is the subject matter.
Content
Testing & Assessment
It is used by the psychological assessor.
Psychological Assessment
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
It refers to the potential for learning or acquiring a specific skill.
- tend to focus on informal learning
- rely mostly on predictive validity
Aptitude
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
It refers to a person’s general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing environments, abstract thinking, and profit from experience.
Intelligence
It is the technical quality.
How consistently and how accurately a test measures what it supposed to measure.
Psychometric Soundess
Personality Test
It provides statement, usually self-report, and require the subject to choose between two or more alternative responses.
Structured Personality Tests
Administration Procedures
It does not require a present test administrator. Test takers independently complete the tasks.
Group Testing
Guidelines for Scoring & Interpretation
Some tests comes with:
- Test manuals on which the guidelines are explicitly stated
- Only the stimulus materials (e.g., Rorschach Inkblots)
Personality Test
It is unstructured, and the stimulus or response are ambiguous.
Projective Personality Tests
Psychological Test
It measures individual dispositions and preferences.
- designed to identify characteristic
- measured ideographically or nomothetically
Personality Test
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
It is the measurement of the previous learning
measures general knowledge in a specific period of time
- used to assess mastery
- rely mostly on content validity
- fact-based or conceptual
Achievement Test
Tools of Psychological Assessment
It is the method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange.
Interview
Testing & Assessment
Administrators can be interchangeable without affecting the evaluation.
Changing the test user won’t make significant difference in the process.
Psychological Testing
It is a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly and this response is being scored or evaluated.
Item
Interview
There are more than one interviewer.
Typically used by HR professionals.
Panel/Board Interview
It is the reference point derived by judgement used to divide a set of data into two or more classification.
Cut-Score
also called “Cut off Score”
Ability or Maximal Performance Test
The considerable overlap of achievement, aptitude, and intelligence test.
Human Ability
Testing & Assessment
The assessor is the key to the process of selecting tests and/or other tools of evaluation.
His skills, knowledge, & experience are vital to the conclusions.
Psychological Assessment
Other Tests
It is a tool used to measure a person’s core values and beliefs.
Values Inventory
Testing & Assessment
It is the process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior.
“data”
Psychological Testing
It refers to professional who uses, analyzes, and interprets psychological data.
Psychometrist or Psychometrician
Testing & Assessment
- numerical in nature
- minutes to few hours
Psychological Testing
Tools of Psychological Assessment
It is the device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology (e.g., intelligence).
Psychological Test
Interview
It is used by counselors and clinicians to gather information about some problematic behavior, while simultaneously attempting to address it therapeutically.
It involves a therapeutic conversation with person-centered techniques and cognitive-altering techniques.
Motivational Interview
Testing & Assessment
It is the gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making psychological evaluation.
“making sense of the data”
Psychological Assessment
Other Tests
It reflects the level of difficulty of items the test takers answer correctly.
Power Tests
Other Test
It is designed to measure an individual’s performance against a predetermined standard or set of criteria.
It focus on absolute mastery of specific skills or knowledge.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Other Tests
The interest is the number of times a test taker can answer correctly in a specific period.
Speed Tests