Psychological Assessment (Measures of Ability, Aptitude, Interests) Flashcards
Curriculum-based measurement is used to assess basic ____ presented in the current curriculum in order to facilitate decisions related to instructional effectiveness
academic skills
______-based assessment involves evaluating a student’s ability to carry out a physical activity or produce a produce
performance
Measures used to identify learning disabilities include the ITPA-3, which provides information on a child’s _____, and the _____, which is a rapid screening device for assessing reading, spelling, and math skills
linguistic abilities; WRAT4
The SAT reasoning test is used to predict the college success of high school seniors and consists of three sections: critical reading, mathematical, and _______
writing
The studies have found that the SAT is somewhat less accurate as a predictor for examinees who obtain scores in the _____ of the score distribution
middle-range
Traditionally, aptitude tests have been described as measures of _____, while achievement tests are considered measures of knowledge acquired in a controlled setting
innate learning capacity
Multiple aptitude tests often lack adequate _____ validity
differential
The ______ was designed for students in grades 7 through 12 to assist in educational and career counselling, while the GATB is used with high school seniors and adults for vocational counselling and job placement
DAT
measures of specific aptitudes are usually better at predicting _____ performance that on-the-job success
training program
Psychomotor tests tend to have low validity due to their susceptibility to practice effects and high _____
specificity
Research investigating the validity of interest inventories suggests that they are less valid than intelligence tests for predicting job success but are good predictors for job choice, _____, and persistence
satisfaction
The Occupational Scales of the Strong Interest Inventory were developed on the basis of ______, which involved comparing the responses of males and females in different occupational groups to those of men and women in a general representative sample
empirical criterion keying
Development of the KOIS also used the empirical criterion keying method but involved considering only only the responses of people in ______
different occupations
The Self Directed Search (SDS) yields scores on six _____ that are conceptualized in terms of a hexagon
occupational themes
Starting at the upper left of the hexagon and moving clockwise, the six categories are: Realistic, Investigative, _______, Social Enterprising, and ______
Artistic; Conventional
Holland believed that several factors are important when interpreting an examinee’s scores on the SDS, including _____, which refers to the degree of distinctiveness of an examinee’s measured interests
differentiation
Curriculum-based measures are useful for:
monitoring a student’s progress to evaluate instructional effectiveness.
Factor analyses have indicated that psychomotor skills:
are highly independent
One criticism of multi-aptitude test batteries is that they lack adequate differential validity, which means that:
their subtests have similar levels of validity for predicting outcomes for different criterion groups
On the Self-Directed Search (SDS), the artistic theme is most similar to which of the following themes?
investigative
(The artistic theme is adjacent to the investigative theme in the hexagon, which indicates they share some characteristics.)
Research investigating the predictive validity of interest inventories suggests that they are LEAST accurate for predicting:
job performance.
The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) appears to be LEAST accurate as a predictor for:
examinees who score in the mid-range
The Strong Interest Inventory provides scores on all of the following except:
a. Personal Styles Scales.
b. Basic Interest Scales.
c. General Occupational Themes.
d. College Major Scales
College Major Scales
When using Holland’s Self-Directed Search, the degree of match between an examinee’s expressed interests and measured interests is referred to as:
congruence
