What is Assessment? Flashcards
Define Assessment
The process of collecting data for the purpose of making decisions about people
Interpreting the measurement for the purpose of making decisions about placement, program planning, and performance objective.
What is the difference between a test and an assessment?
Test if a tool to gather information but not used to make a decision. It becomes an assessment when the results are interpreted
Why is it so difficult to make objective assessment?
Humans actively construct thier knowledge rather than receive it fully formed, from external sources, which include the physical world adn the various forms of social wisdom which range from other people, language, school, or tv
We all bring our own biases, assumptions and patterns of thinking
The impact of negative attitudes and assumptions on assessment (come up with the impacts)
Individuals with physical impairments
Individuals with weight management problems
Individuals with communication barriers
Ways to minimize the impact of personal attitudes and assumptions on the assessment process
Self awareness
Multiple sources/types of measurements used to assess
Scientific methods
What are the reasons for assessment?
Screening Diagnostic Placement To know the client To determine progress To compare against others To compare against a criterion
What is the quantitative approach?
Explanation oriented
Used to answer questions about relationships among variables
Data collected in the form of numbers
Statistical procedures used to examine relationships between variables
What is the experimental method of the quantitative approach?
Establish cause and effect Why things are happening Use the scientific method -State the problem -Measurable hypothesis -Design study -Analyze -Conclusion -Identify new research method
What is the non-experimental method of quantitative approach?
Used when it is difficult to manipulate the variable of interest (may not be ethical to change the variable)
More concerned with relationship (cannot determine cause and effect)
Data is still recorded in numbers
What is a qualitative approach?
Description oriented
Interested in the how individuals understand themselves
Data collected in form of words
Conclusions are based on interpretation, not statistical analysis
What to know why people do things
What is the phenomenological approach to qualitative analysis?
The study of a selected group of people to understand their perceptions, understanding and beliefs concerning an event or particular situation
What is an ethnographic approach to qualitative analysis?
Involves direct engagement with the participant in their environment to obtain in-depth understanding of their behaviours and situations
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative in terms of types of reasoning?
Deductive - forming of conclusion based on gathered data by applying the rules of logic to a premise (quant)
Indictive - induce or develop an insight or idea, or an awareness from the information collected (quality)
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative in terms of number of participants?
Generalisation of study findings to the general population is for quantitative approach.
Qualitative is not worried about generalizing
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative approaches in terms of data collection procedures?
Quantitative - rigid, set out ahead of time
Qualitative - interview, mould the interview to the individuals
