Week 5 Flashcards
Testing and Assessment of People & Communities of Color (A Range of Organizaiotns including APA
Recounting the history of harm that assessment has done to people and communities of color (starting as far back as Plato) as well as suggestions to minimize cultural influences in testing.
African Americans
American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians
Asian Americans
Latina/os Americans
Unitary construct
A construct measured by adding two or more related subtests and those component subtests scores are not substantially dissimilar
When not substantially different, the construct holds together as a viable construct
Ex. Visual ability reflected in BD, MR, and PC
FISQ can be a unitary if the scores are all consistent, but also cannot be unitary (some are really high, some are really low)
Tenants of Intelligent Testing
- subtests are samples of behavior (they are limited samples!)
- Testing assess mental functioning under fixed experimental conditions
- test batteries are most useful when interpreted from a theoretical model (information processing)
- hypothesis should be supported by multiple sources (best to use multiple tests to assess)
WAIS Interpretation
Look at:
- FISQ
- index scores (standard scores/composite scores)
- Subscale scores (mean 10, sd 3)
- idiographic answers/behaviors
AND
Normative Comparison
Idiographic profile
(Idiographic: relating to or dealing with something concrete, individual, or unique)
DSM Intellectual Disability
A. Deficits in intellectual functioning confirmed by clinical assessment and individualized, standardized intelligence testing
B. Deficits in adaptive functioning that limits one or more ADLs, including communication, social participation, and independent living, across multiple environments including home, school, work, community)
C. Onset during the developmental period
Adaptive behavior measures
Used structured interviews
Vineland adaptive behavior scale 3rd edition
- done by parents, person, teacher, etc.
Adaptive behavior assessment system-3
- Newer
WAIS-4 Indices and what they measure
VCI - long term memory and learning ability
WMI - Information processing capacity
PRI - spatial reasoning ability
PSI - processing visually presented information accurately and quickly
Verbal comprehension Index
Retrieval of information from long term storage and reasoning with it
Perceptual reasoning
reasoning with nonverbal, visual stimuli including the ability to analyze and synthesize abstract visual stimuli
Working memory index
encoding stimuli, keeping information accessible, manipulating it and using it in thinking. the “engine of working”
Processing Speed Index
Visual, motor, and visual-motor processing speeds
What does Block Design
Eyesight & Some motor skill
Being able to register the visual image of each block
Understand the fact they are all identical
Manipulating and comparing in one’s mind a block in relation to the model and the other blocks
Communicating one’s mental effort to the fingers
Registering visual feedback to make adjustments
Largely relies on visual-spatial abilities.
Comprehension
Hearing
Language skills
Attentional abilities (ability to focus, anxiety)
Experience in the world (rich vs impoverished, moral development, etc)
Abstract reasoning to formulate an answer
Articulation
Ability to respond to query
Interpretation Theory. Good assessors use:
research knowledge
theoretical sophistication
solid clinical skills
Information processing model
Input (how information from the senses enters the brain)
Integration (Interpreting and processing)
Storage (storing for later retrieval)
Output (expressing information)
