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In assessment, the adaptation of a test, procedure, or situation, or the substitution of one test for another in order to make the assessment more suitable for an assessee with exceptional needs. In the workplace, modification of or adjustments to job functions or circumstances.

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Accommodation

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Evaluation of accomplishment of the degree of learning that has taken place, usually with regard to an academic area.

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Achievement Test

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An examination method or procedure characterized by individually tailoring presentation of items to the testtaker, also referred to as tailored testing, sequential testing, branched testing, and response-contingent testing.

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Adaptive Testing

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An evaluative or diagnostic procedure or process that varies from the usual, customary, or standardized way a measurement is derived either by some special accommodation made to the assesse or by alternative methods designed to measure the same variable(s)

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Alternate Assessment

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An organizationally standardized procedure for evaluation involving multiple assessment techniques.

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Assessment Center

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Monitoring the actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions, typically for diagnostic or related purposes and either to design intervention or to measure the outcome of an intervention.

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Behavioral Observation

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An acronym the stands for computer assisted psychological testing. Assists the test user in administering, scoring, and interpreting test results.

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CAPA

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Also referred to as a case study, this is a report or illustrative account concerning a person or an event that was compiled on the basis of case history data

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Case History

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Records, transcripts, and other accounts in an media that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and items relevant to an assesse

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Case History Data

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Also referred to as a case history, this is a report or illustrative account concerning a person or an event that was compiled on the basis of case history data

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Case Study

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Reference to the computer’s ability to tailor the test to a testtaker’s ability or test-taking pattern.

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Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)

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Computerized scoring, interpretation, or other conversion of raw test data that is physically transported from the same or other test sites; contrast with teleprocessing and local processing.

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Central Processing

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In clinical psychology, a helping, open-ended interview wherein both parties work together on a common mission of discovery, insight, and enlightenment.

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Collaborative Interview

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A process of assessment wherein the assessor and assessee work as “partners” from initial contact through final feedback.

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Collaborative Psychological Assessment

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A type of interpretive report designed to provide expert and detailed analysis of test data that mimics the work of an expert consultant

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Consultative Report

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A reference point, usually numerical, derived by judgment and used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications. Some action will be taken or some inference will be made on the basis of these classifications.

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cut score

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A loss of cognitive functioning (which may affect memory, thinking, reasoning, psychomotor speed, attention, and related abilities, as well as personality.

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Dementia

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A description or conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and opinion.

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Diagnosis

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Refers to a tool of assessment used to help narrow down and identify areas of deficit to be targeted for intervention.

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Diagnostic Test

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Refers to an interactive approach to psychological assessment that usually follows a model of (1) evaluation, (2) intervention of some sort, and (3) evaluation.

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Dynamic Assessment

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The in the moment and in the place evaluation of targeted variables, such as behaviors, cognitions, and emotions. In a natural naturalistic, or real-life context.

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Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)

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Refers to the use of tests and other tools to evaluate abilities and skills relevant to success or failure in a school or preschool context.

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Educational Assessment

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A report that includes raw scores and derived scores rather than just raw data

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Extended Scoring Report

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Pertains to the form plan, structure, arrangement, and layout of test items as well as to related considerations such as time limits.

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Format

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Collective decision-making characterized more by a drive toward consensus than critical analysis and evaluation, which may lead to less reasoned and riskier decisions than those that might have been made by an individual making the same decision.

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GroupThink

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A discipline that focuses on understanding the role of psychological variables in the onset, course, treatment, and prevention of illness, disease, and disability.

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Health Psychology

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A tool of assessment in which information is gathered through direct, reciprocal communication.

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Interview

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Distinguished by its inclusion of numerical or narrative interpretive statements in the report.

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Interpretive Report

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On-site, computerized scoring, interpretation, or other conversion of raw test data; contrast with central processing and teleprocessing.

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Local Processing

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A therapeutic dialogue that combines person-centered listening skills such as openness and empathy with the use of cognition-altering techniques designed to positive affect motivation and effect therapeutic change.

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Motivational Interviewing

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Behavioral observation that takes place in a naturally occurring setting (as opposed to a research laboratory) for the purpose of evaluation and information-gathering.

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Naturalistic Observation

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Also referred to as a board interview, an interview conducted with one interviewee by more than one interview at a time

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Panel Interview

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A work sample used as a tool in an evaluative or diagnostic process.

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Portfolio

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Typically refers to the form or sheet or booklet on which a testtaker’s responses are entered. In testing it may also refer to a description of a set of test- or assessment-related procedures.

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Protocol

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A type of condition in which a person appears to have severe cognitive dysfunction but which on closer examination is due to psychological related variable such as depression.

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Pseudodementia

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The gathering and integrating of psychological data for psychological evaluation, through the use of tests, interview, case studies, behavioral observation, and specially designed apparatuses and measurement procedures.

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Psychological Assessment

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A reconstruction of a deceased individual’s psychological profile on the basis of archival records, artifacts, and interview previously conducted with the deceased assessee or people who knew him or her.

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Psychological Autopsy

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A measuring device or procedure designed to measure psychology- related variables (such as intelligence, personality, aptitude, interests, attitudes, or values).

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Psychological Test

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The measuring of psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain samples of behavior.

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Psychological Testing

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The science of psychological measurement

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Psychometrics

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The technical quality of a test or other tool of assessment

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Psychometric Soundness

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A professional in testing and assessment who typically holds a master’s degree in psychology or education and is qualified to administer specific tests

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Psychometrist

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An online electronic database, maintained by the American Psychological Association and leased to institutional users, designed to help individuals locate relevant documents from psychology, education, nursing, social work, law, medicine and other disciplines.

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PsycINFO

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Evaluations related to perceived stress, loneliness, sources of satisfaction, personal values, quality of living conditions, and quality of friendships and other social support of an individual person.

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Quality of Life Evaluations

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Refers to the working relationship between an examiner and examinee.

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Rapport

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The use of tools of psychological evaluation to gather data and draw conclusions about a subject who is not in physical proximity to the person or people conducting the evaluation.

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Remote Assessment

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The use of evaluative tools to draw conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as the existed at some point in time prior to the assessment.

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Retrospective Assessment:

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Acting an improvised or partially improvised part in a simulated situation

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Role Play

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An assessment tool wherein assesses are instructed to act as if they
were placed in a particular situation.

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Role Playing Test

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A code or summary statement, usually but not necessarily numerical in nature, that reflects an evaluation of performance on a test, task, interview, or some other sample of behavior.

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Score

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The process of assigning evaluative codes or statements to performance on tests, tasks, interview, or other behavior samples.

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Scoring

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A report that includes a mere listing of a score or raw scores without derived scores.

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Simple Scoring Report

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Computerized scoring, interpretation, or other conversion of raw test data sent over telephone lines by modem from a test site to a central location for computer processing.

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Teleprocessing

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Distributed by the test publisher. It gives descriptions of various tests being sold.

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Test Catalogue

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The person or persons who construct or make up a test

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Test Developer

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The person who selects, administers, scores, and interprets tests.

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Test User

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The person who is administered the test.

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The Testtaker

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A collaborative approach wherein discovery of therapeutic insights about oneself are encouraged and actively promoted by the assessor throughout the assessment process. In the context of psychological testing and assessment, a reference to how useful a test or assessment technique is for a particular purpose.

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Therapeutic Psychological Assessment

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What does CAPA stand for?

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computer assisted psychological assessment

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What does CAT stand for?

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Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)

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What does EMA stand for?

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Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA):

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