Topic 5: Test Conceptualization Flashcards
___ an umbrella term for all that goes into the process of creating a test.
Test Development
Test Development: The process of creating ___ or ___ to measure specific constructs or traits in individuals.
assessments or tests
Reasons for Test Development (3)
- Need for research on a topic, but no extant measure suitable to carry out the research
- Diagnosis, assessment, employee selection
- Absence of suitable tests or inadequacies in existing ones
Stages of Test Development
- Test Conceptualization
- Test Construction
- Test Tryout
- Test Analysis
- Test Revision
The initial stage of test development where the idea for a test is conceived—defining of the construct and setting the direction for subsequent stages.
Test Conceptualization
Involves writing, revising, or re-writing test items, formatting items, setting scoring rules, and designing the test.
Test Construction
Administration of preliminary test to a representative sample of test-takers.
Test Tryout
Analyzing test-takers’ performance of the test items to determine which items are effective and which ones need revision or removal.
Test Analysis
Modification of test’s content or format based on the results of item analysis and feedback from the test tryout.
Test Revision
What is/are the purpose of test conceptualization?
- To clarify what the test aims to measure, why it matters, and how it will be implemented.
- To eradicate the possibility of confusion that arises when the key terminologies are perceived differently.
Significance of Test Conceptualization
- Guiding Development
- Face Validity
- Adapting to Change
Significance of test conceptualization, in which it guides every aspect of test development—from item generation to interpretation of results.
Guiding Development
A well-conceptualized test ___ of an assessment by ensuring that it measures what it intends to measure.
enhances (the) validity
A ___ facilitates the selection of appropriate items and criteria for scoring, minimizing construct-irrelevant variance.
clear conceptualization
Test conceptualization enables test developers to ___ societal needs and emerging trends.
adapting to change (or evolving)
Stimulus that begins any published test.
- Review of the available literature on existing tests
- Emerging social phenomenon or pattern of behavior
- Response to a need to assess mastery in an emerging occupation or profession
3 circumstances that lead to the development of successful tests
- Theoretical Advances
- Emperical Advances
- A Practical (Market) Need
Result if the test developer created a test that is not based on the 3 circumstances and caused by the duplication of tests.
Construct Proliferation and Jingle-Jangle Fallacy
A phenomenon wherein researchers come up with constructs thinking of these as “new” or “unique,” but are deemed theoretically or empirically indistinguishable from existing constructs.
KEY STATEMENT: REDUNDANCY OF CONSTRUCTS
Construct Proliferation
Occurs when a term or a word is used to refer to two different things.
Jingle Fallacy
Occurs when two different words are used to refer to the same thing.
Jangle Fallacy
Difference between Jingle Fallacy and Jangle Fallacy?
- Jingle F.: word used to refer to two different things
- Jangle F.: two different words are used to refer to the same thing
___ are often driven by prior empirical discoveries.
Theoretical advancements
Reason for the development of many tests and give rise to new constructs, involves the integration of theories, and modification of existing models.
Theoretical and Empirical Advances
