Lesson 1 Flashcards
Roots of contemporary psychological testing and assessment can be found during?
Early 20th France
When did Alfred Binet and a colleague publish a test designed to help place
Paris schoolchildren in appropriate classes?
1905
Term used to refer to everything from the administration of a test
Testing
Data generated were subjected to thoughtful integration and
evaluation by highly trained assessment center staff
Assessment
Process of measuring psychology-related variables by
means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior
Psychological testing
Gathering and integration of psychology- related
data for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation that is accomplished
through the use of tools such as tests, interviews, case studies, behavioral
observation, and specially designed apparatuses and measurement procedures
Psychological assessment
May be defined simply as a measuring device or procedure
Test
Refers to a device or procedure designed to measure variables
related to psychology
Psychological test
Pertains to the form, plan, structure, arrangement, and layout of test items as
well as to related considerations such as time limits
Format
Process of assigning such evaluative codes or statements to performance
on tests, tasks, interviews, or other behavior samples
Scoring
Reference point, usually numerical, derived by judgment and used to
divide a set of data into two or more classifications.
Cut score
May be defined as the science of psychological measurement
Psychometrics
Method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal
exchange.
The Interview
Paper, canvas, film, video, audio, or some other medium; samples of one’s ability and accomplishment
The Portfolio
Refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form
that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and
items relevant to an assessee.
Case history of data
Monitoring the actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while
recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding the actions
Behavioral observation
Sometimes researchers venture outside of the confines of clinics, classrooms,
workplaces, and research laboratories in order to observe behavior of humans in a
natural setting—that is, the setting in which the behavior would typically be expected
to occur.
Naturalistic
observation
- acting an improvised or partially improvised part in a simulated situation
- tool of assessment wherein assessees are directed to act as if they were in a
particular situation
Role Play Test
-Computers can serve as test administrators (online or off) and as highly effi cient test
scorers. Within seconds they can derive not only test scores but patterns of test scores
Computer as tools
Test-related data may be sent to and
returned from this central facility by means of phone lines ( teleprocessing ), by mail,
or courier
Central location
Account of performance spewed out can
range from a mere listing of score or scores (i.e., a simple scoring report ) to the
more detailed extended scoring report, which includes statistical analyses of the
testtaker’s performance
Processed locally or centrally
CAPA, typically refers to the assistance computers provide to the test
user, not the testtaker
Computer Assisted Psychological Assessment
WHO:
Create tests or other
methods of assessment
The test developer
WHO:
Psychological tests and assessment methodologies are used by a
wide range of professionals, including clinicians, counselors, school
psychologists, human resources personnel,consumer psychologists, experimental
psychologists, social psychologists
The test user
