assesment tools

Question 1

BDI

Answer 1

The beck depression inventory

people over 13
21 items
severity of depression
5-10 minutes
good test-retest reliability

Question 2

K-SAS

Answer 2

impulse control: kleptomania
reflect on thoughts, feelings and actions over the past week
0-4 scale
>31 = severe
people with klepto score around 22 - 37
standardised procedure
test-retest validity (weekly)
10 minutes

Question 3

GAD-7

Answer 3

anxiety

7 items
can be an interview
>15 severe
strong test0retest validity
not accurate reflection of symptoms over time

Question 4

BIPI

Answer 4

blood injection phobia
18 situations
evaluate reaction in each - cognitive, psychological, behavioural
0-3 Frequency
valid evidence - Spanish cultures

Question 5

MOCI

Answer 5

OCD
not a formal diagnosis
30 items
5 minutes
true/false
washing, checking, slowness, doubting
test-retest
fixed choice

Question 6

Y-BOCS

Answer 6

OCD
semi-structured
5 items compulsions, 5 items obsessions
30 minutes
0-4 severity
8-15 mild; 32-40 extreme
strong inter-rater reliability
only symptoms in the last week

Question 7

LBDQ

Answer 7

Leadership
Used to develop the Ohio University explanation - initiation structure and consideration
5 point scale from never to always
military, eduction, industry workers completed it
150 statements

Question 8

LPI

Answer 8

Leadership Practices inventory

psychometric measure questionnaire - made with case studies, interviews and self-reports
LIP self- LPI observer (10 people)
30 forced choice
10 point rating scale

Question 9

TAT

Answer 9

motivation - thematic apperception test

Projective test
Measures individual needs
Describing ambiguous stimuli, projecting your needs onto the story

Question 10

TKI

Answer 10

group behaviour - thomas kilnmann instrument

forced choice
statements on 5 conflict styles

Question 11

JDI

Answer 11

job descriptive index - satisfaction at work

Measure job satisfaction
words/adjectives of 5 dimensions (jobs, supervision, pay, co-workers, promotion)
72 item questionnaire
compared with standardised norms based on data from a large sample of people and updated regularly
3 point scale (yes/no/idk)

Question 12

QWL

Answer 12

Satisfaction at Work: QWL (quality of working life)

8 criteria (pay, autonomy, promotion, life promotion, belonging, privacy, relevance)
5 point Likert rating scale
Used to assess feelings employees have towards jobs, colleagues, and companies informing how these feelings affect organisational growth and profitability.
Quite complex language used (e.g. remuneration, salubrity, polyvalence)
situational aspects of an individual’s job rather than individual factors such as personality and self-esteem, etc.
fOrced-choice
The JDI and the QWL scale are forms of psychometric tests, which have a number of strengths: allow managers to have a greater insight into the motivations, traits and characteristics, the use of a standardised and objective measure and they are also simple to use and allow for a greater distribution with little cost.

Question 13

Test for Validity

Answer 13

Concurrent validity: up to date
Construct Validity: testing the construct it’s supposed to test

Question 14

For all designs:

Answer 14

Aims and hypotheses
Procedure
Sample
Sampling Technique
How the plan makes the study valid
How the plan makes the study reliable
Types of data, analysis of data, use of descriptive statistics

Question 15

design an experiment

Answer 15

Experiments:
Type of experiment
IV and DV
Controls/ standardisation
Choice of experimental design (matched pairs, independent measures, repeated measures…)
Counterbalancing, random allocation…
Location (for field experiments)

Question 16

Longitudinal Studies

Answer 16

Longitudinal Studies including experiments without a longitudinal design:
tests/tasks
Scoring
frequency/interval
Re-contacting of participants (for repeated testing)
controls/standardisation

Question 17

Observations

Answer 17

Overt/Covert
Participant/Non-participant
Naturalistic/controlled
Structured (behavioural categories, event sampling, time sampling)/unstructured
Number of observers
(+inter-rater reliability test)
The reliability of observations: Test-retest reliability when an observation is repeated at a later date and the two sets of observations are compared, Inter-rater reliability where two observers observe the same behaviour independently. The data are compared and the level of agreement can be calculated using a correlation test.

Question 18

Case Studies

Answer 18

Case Studies
Details about the participant
Sonnet of info collected
2 or more techniques for data collection
analysis/interpretation/triangulation

Question 19

Correlations

Answer 19

Correlations
Two co-variables
Measure of variable 1
Measure of variable 2
Nature of relationship/scatter graph

Question 20

Self-Reports

Answer 20

Self-Reports
Question format (open/closed)
1- 2 Examples of questions
Time will take
Question scoring/interpretation
Questionnaires: technique (pen and pencil, online, postal)
Interviews: format (structured, unstructured, semi-structured)
Interviews: technique (face to face/telephone)
Interviews: Uniform, occasion, posture
(+LIE ‘I never lie, I never swear… and FILLER QUESTIONS)