Ch. 8 - Assessment and Testing Flashcards

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Appraisal:

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  • Process of assessing or estimating attributes
  • Broad term-could use various methods
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Difficulty index

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  • indicates % of individuals who answered each question correctly
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Forced choice

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  • AKA recognition items
  • can control for desirability phenomenon
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Normative test

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  • Participant can legitimately be compared to others who have taken the test
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Ipsative test

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  • Can’t legit compare to others who have taken the test
  • does not reveal absolute strengths
  • within-person analysis
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6
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Power test

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  • time is not an issue
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Achievement test

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  • measures maximum performance or present level of skill
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8
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Personality test/interest inventory

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  • measures typical performance
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Cyclical test

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  • several sections which are spiral in nature
  • gets more difficult with each section
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Test battery

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  • horizontal test
  • several measures are used to produce results that could be more accurate than from a single source
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Vertical test

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  • versions for various age brackets or levels of education
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Horizontal test

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  • measures various factors during same testing procedure
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Validity

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  • more important than reliability
  • # 1 factor in construction of a test
  • a test must measure what it says it will measure
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Reliability

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  • need to give repeated readings which are nearly identical for the same person every single time or across participants (inter-rater reliability)
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15
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5 types of validity

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1 - construct validity: test’s ability to measure a theoretical construct like intelligence, self-esteem, etc.
2 - concurrent valididty: how well the test compares to other tests measuring the same thing
3 - content valididty: does the test examine or sample under scrutiny? How well it covers all relevant parts of the construct it aims to measure
4 - predictive validity: empirical validity - reflects the test’s ability to predict future behavior according to established criteria
5 - consequential valididty - tries to ascertain the social implications of using the test

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16
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A test can be _ but not _

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reliable; valid

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17
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Reliability measurement

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i.e., .70 reliability = 70% of score is accurate and 30% inaccurate

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18
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True variance =

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  • correlation squared
  • reliability coefficient AKA coefficient of determination
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19
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Francis Galton

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  • felt intelligence was a unitary faculty
  • concluded intelligence was normally distributed
20
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Guilford

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  • isolated 120 factors which added up to intelligence
  • known for thoughts on convergent and divergent thinking
21
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Kuder-Richardson

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  • coefficents of equivalence
  • measure internal consistency reliability
  • KR-20 or KR-21 formulas
22
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Cross validation coefficent

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  • is smaller than initial validity coefficent
  • known as shrinkage
  • helps guard against error factors, which are likely present with small sample sizes
23
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1st intelligence test created by

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  • Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon
  • is now a standardized measure
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Convergent thinking

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  • when divergent thoughts/ideas are combined into a singular concept
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Divergent thinking

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  • the ability to generate a novel idea
26
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Formula for Ratio IQ

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MA/CA x 100
- test was created to discriminate children w/o an intellectual disability from children w/ an intellectual disability
- formula has been replaced by standard age score

27
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Entropy =

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  • dysfunctional families are either too open or too closed
  • a healthy family is in a state of negative entropy
28
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IQ tests (SAS)

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WPPSI - children 2.5-7
WAIS-IV - 16-90
WISC-IV - 6-16

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WAIS-IV

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  • 16-90
  • Cattell-Horn-Carroll neurocognitive research
  • online exam 60-90 minutes
  • object assembly and picture arrangement dropped
  • 10 subjects, 4 index scores
  • 100 is mean with SD of 15
30
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Arthur Jensen

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  • known for 1969 article about black vs white IQ controversy
31
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John Ertl

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  • claimed he invented an electronic machine to analyze neural efficiency and take place of paper/pencil IQ test
32
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Raymond Cattell

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  • responsible for the fluid and crystallized intelligence
  • known for 16 personality factor questionnaire
33
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Crystallized intelligence

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  • measured by tests that focus on content
34
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Fluid intelligence

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  • tested by what has been called “content-free reasoning” such as a block design or a pictorial analogy problem
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Robert Williams

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  • created the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity (BITCH)
36
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Factor-analytic tests

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  • Analyze data outside a given theory
  • knwon as inventory, not theory-based tests
37
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Myers-Briggs based on

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Jung

38
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Aptitude =
Achievement =

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Potential
What has been learned

39
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT

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  • 31 cards with ambiguous pictures
  • make up a story for each
    The Rorschach is similar with 10 inkblot cards
40
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Bender Gestalt Test

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  • expressive projective measure
  • determines if brain damage is evident
  • copy 16 geometric figures
41
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Interest inventories

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  • best for high schoolers
  • reliable, not threatening to test-taker
42
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AARC =

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  • association for assessment and research in counseling
43
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Increasing a test’s length…

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  • increases reliability
  • shortening the length, decreases reliability
44
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Word association test

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  • is a projective test
45
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Item difficulty

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0 - 1.0
The higher the item difficulty is set at, the easier the questions are to answer (.75 will be easier than .25 item difficulty)