Psychological Assessment (Measures of Ability, Aptitude, Interests)

Question 1

Curriculum-based measurement is used to assess basic ____ presented in the current curriculum in order to facilitate decisions related to instructional effectiveness

Answer 1

academic skills

Question 2

______-based assessment involves evaluating a student’s ability to carry out a physical activity or produce a produce

Answer 2

performance

Question 3

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

Answer 3

linguistic abilities; WRAT4

Question 4

The SAT reasoning test is used to predict the college success of high school seniors and consists of three sections: critical reading, mathematical, and _______

Answer 4

writing

Question 5

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

Answer 5

middle-range

Question 6

Traditionally, aptitude tests have been described as measures of _____, while achievement tests are considered measures of knowledge acquired in a controlled setting

Answer 6

innate learning capacity

Question 7

Multiple aptitude tests often lack adequate _____ validity

Answer 7

differential

Question 8

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

Answer 8

DAT

Question 9

measures of specific aptitudes are usually better at predicting _____ performance that on-the-job success

Answer 9

training program

Question 10

Psychomotor tests tend to have low validity due to their susceptibility to practice effects and high _____

Answer 10

specificity

Question 11

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

Answer 11

satisfaction

Question 12

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

Answer 12

empirical criterion keying

Question 13

Development of the KOIS also used the empirical criterion keying method but involved considering only only the responses of people in ______

Answer 13

different occupations

Question 14

The Self Directed Search (SDS) yields scores on six _____ that are conceptualized in terms of a hexagon

Answer 14

occupational themes

Question 15

Starting at the upper left of the hexagon and moving clockwise, the six categories are: Realistic, Investigative, _______, Social Enterprising, and ______

Answer 15

Artistic; Conventional

Question 16

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

Answer 16

differentiation

Question 17

Curriculum-based measures are useful for:

Answer 17

monitoring a student’s progress to evaluate instructional effectiveness.

Question 18

Factor analyses have indicated that psychomotor skills:

Answer 18

are highly independent

Question 19

One criticism of multi-aptitude test batteries is that they lack adequate differential validity, which means that:

Answer 19

their subtests have similar levels of validity for predicting outcomes for different criterion groups

Question 20

On the Self-Directed Search (SDS), the artistic theme is most similar to which of the following themes?

Answer 20

investigative
(The artistic theme is adjacent to the investigative theme in the hexagon, which indicates they share some characteristics.)

Question 21

Research investigating the predictive validity of interest inventories suggests that they are LEAST accurate for predicting:

Answer 21

job performance.

Question 22

The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) appears to be LEAST accurate as a predictor for:

Answer 22

examinees who score in the mid-range

Question 23

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

Answer 23

College Major Scales

Question 24

When using Holland’s Self-Directed Search, the degree of match between an examinee’s expressed interests and measured interests is referred to as:

Answer 24

congruence