SCATBI: Administering and Scoring Test Items Flashcards
The design of the testlets: where items are ordered by increasing difficulty or complexity, allows examiners to discontinue adminstering a scale when an examinee fails to respond correctly to the first several testlets in a scale. What is the exception to this rule?
Orientation testlet: Why? - Because it does not exhibit a clear progression of difficulty and should always be administered in its entirety.
What does failure to respond to the first 3 testlets in scales other than Orientation indicate?
The examinee will be unable to respond correctly to the remaining testlets.
What should the decision to discontinue the SCATBI testlets be based on?
The clinician’s clinical judgment
What should the examiner do when the patient does not make a response?
The examiner should record an N in the scoring blank for the item.
What should the examiner do when the patient refuses to make a response?
The examiner should record the N and note that the patient refused.
What should an examiner score for no response on the record form?
Score N for no response
No credit is earned.
What should an examiner score for the response of “I don’t know?”
Score 0 for “I don’t know.”
No credit is earned.
