Chapter 1 - Intro to Counseling Assessment

Question 1

What is the relationship b/w counseling and assessment?

Answer 1

Assessments helps counselors formulate a comprehensive and accurate understanding of client.

Question 2

ID the various types of assessments commonly used in counseling practice

Question 3

What are the challenges inherent in the practice of counseling assessment?

Answer 3

Hobson v Hansen (1967) ruled that group administered ability tests were discriminatory and biased against minorities.

Question 4

What are controversial issues in counseling assessment

Answer 4

Biases (ethnic). Fairness and accuracy. Use of test results to make high-stake decisions, technology use.

Question 5

What is assessment?

Answer 5

A process that integrates info with info from other sources (tests, history (social, educational, employment, medical, psych).

Question 6

What is the name of the document AERA and NCME produced?

Answer 6

Standards for Educational and Psych. Testing, “The Standards”

Question 7

Assessment is used interchangeably with:

Answer 7

Appraisal and Evaluation

Question 8

The differences b/w assessment, appraisal and evaluation are

Answer 8

Assessment is objective. The other two involve judgments made based on evidence.

Question 9

Define psychological testing

Answer 9

Objective, standardized measure of behavior.

Question 10

Purpose of assessment (4)

Answer 10

Screening, diagnosing, treatment planning/goal setting, progress evaluation

Question 11

Earliest recorded use of assessment?

Answer 11

China Gov’t 2200 BCE (civil service 3 day test), Ancient Greeks 500 BCE.

Question 12

Coined “intelligence testing.”

Answer 12

Juan Huarte (1500s).

Question 13

First to theorize intelligence is in the genes.

Answer 13

Francis Galton (1800s)

Question 14

Father of experimental psychology (sensory testing)

Answer 14

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 15

First American to create experimental psychological lab, and a student of Wundt.

Answer 15

James Cattell

Question 16

Alfred Binet and Victor Henri (1890s) defined intelligence in terms of (6)

Answer 16

Memory, abstraction, judgment, analytical processing, and reasoning. They also coined IQ.

Question 17

WWI Military tests were

Answer 17

Army Alpha and Army Beta

Question 18

Army Alpha measured

Answer 18

verbal and numerical ability, knowledge of info and ability to follow directions. (Multiple choice)

Question 19

Army Beta evaluated

Answer 19

illiterate, unschooled, non-English speaking recruits and was a nonverbal counterpart. (Multiple choice)

Question 20

Father of Career Counseling, Guidance COunseling

Answer 20

Frank Parsons

Question 21

High School principal in Chicago who administered career assessments and integrated it into the curriculum.

Answer 21

Jesse B. Davis

Question 22

Proposed earliest theories of intelligence

Answer 22

Charles Spearman. Intelligence was general and specific.

Question 23

Louis Thurstone (1938) said primary abilities (intelligence) comprised 7 different factors

Answer 23

word fluency, verbal comp., spatial visual, number facility, associative memory, reasoning and perceptual speed.

Question 24

Father of IQ Standard deviation

Answer 24

David Wechsler (1939)

Question 25

Name founder of Rorschach Test

Answer 25

Herman Rorschach (1921)

Question 26

Name the test in which test takers are presented with a picture and asked to tell a story about it.

Answer 26

Thematic Apperception Test

Question 27

What is MMY?

Answer 27

Mental Measurements Yearbook. Allowed leading scholars to publish candidly critical reviews of commercially available tests.

Question 28

MMPI

Answer 28

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Introduced criterion keying and a more objective measurement

Question 29

Define Authentic Assessment

Answer 29

Tasks that measure how well students perform in real-life contexts. Recall info and apply it.

Question 30

Assessment Competency List

Answer 30

ACA Code of Ethics, Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education, RUST (Resp. of Users of Stand. Test). Stand. of Qualifications of Test Users, Rights and Resp. of Test Takers

Question 31

Define IQ

Answer 31

Ratio of a person's mental age and chronological age. (Eg: 6 year old completing 8 year old task had IQ of 8).

Question 31

Define IQ

Answer 31

Ratio of a person's mental age and chronological age. (Eg: 6 year old completing 8 year old task had IQ of 8).