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What is the primary purpose of psychological testing?
What is a characteristic of psychological testing?
What type of assessment evaluates abilities and skills relevant in a school context?
What is the term for the science of psychological measurement?
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What is a reference point derived by judgment and used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications?
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What is the term for a professional who uses, analyzes, and interprets psychological data?
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What type of assessment involves logical problem-solving that brings to bear many sources of data?
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What is the term for the process of assigning scores to performances?
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What is the key feature of psychological testing?
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What is the primary goal of psychological assessment?
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What is the term for a device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology?
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What is the purpose of scoring in psychological testing?
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What type of assessment is characterized by the assessor and assessee working as 'partners' from initial contact through final feedback?
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What is the term for the technical quality of a psychological test?
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What type of assessment involves evaluating specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the very time and place they occur?
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What is the term for a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly and is being scored or evaluated?
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Study Notes
Psychological Testing
- A process of measuring psychology-related variables using devices or procedures to obtain a sample of behavior
- Numerical in nature and can be administered individually or in a group
- Administrators can be interchangeable without affecting the evaluation
- Requires technician-like skills in administration and scoring
- Yields a test score or series of test scores, taking minutes to a few hours to complete
Psychological Assessment
- Gathering and integrating psychology-related data to make a psychological evaluation
- Answers referral questions using different tools of evaluation
- Individualized, with the assessor selecting tests and/or other tools of evaluation
- Requires educated selection of tools, skill in evaluation, and thoughtful organization and integration of data
- Entails logical problem-solving that brings together many sources of data to answer the referral question
Types of Psychological Assessment
- Educational: evaluates abilities and skills relevant in a school context
- Retrospective: draws conclusions about psychological aspects of a person at a point in time prior to the assessment
- Remote: subject is not in physical proximity to the person conducting the evaluation
- Ecological Momentary: "in the moment" evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables
- Collaborative: the assessor and assessee work as "partners" from initial contact through final feedback
- Therapeutic: encourages therapeutic self-discovery and new understanding
- Dynamic: describes an interactive approach to psychological assessment that involves evaluation, intervention, and evaluation
Psychological Tests
- Devices or procedures designed to measure variables related to psychology
- Comprise content, format, item, administration procedures, score, and scoring
- Content refers to the subject matter
- Format refers to the form, plan, structure, arrangement, or layout
- Item is a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly
- Administration procedures can be one-to-one or group-based
- Score is a code or summary statement that reflects an evaluation of performance on a test
- Scoring is the process of assigning scores to performances
- Cut-Score is a reference point used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications
- Psychometric soundness refers to technical quality
- Psychometrics is the science of psychological measurement
- A psychometrist or psychometrician is a professional who uses, analyzes, and interprets psychological data
Psychological Testing
- A process of measuring psychology-related variables using devices or procedures to obtain a sample of behavior
- Numerical in nature and can be administered individually or in a group
- Administrators can be interchangeable without affecting the evaluation
- Requires technician-like skills in administration and scoring
- Yields a test score or series of test scores, taking minutes to a few hours to complete
Psychological Assessment
- Gathering and integrating psychology-related data to make a psychological evaluation
- Answers referral questions using different tools of evaluation
- Individualized, with the assessor selecting tests and/or other tools of evaluation
- Requires educated selection of tools, skill in evaluation, and thoughtful organization and integration of data
- Entails logical problem-solving that brings together many sources of data to answer the referral question
Types of Psychological Assessment
- Educational: evaluates abilities and skills relevant in a school context
- Retrospective: draws conclusions about psychological aspects of a person at a point in time prior to the assessment
- Remote: subject is not in physical proximity to the person conducting the evaluation
- Ecological Momentary: "in the moment" evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables
- Collaborative: the assessor and assessee work as "partners" from initial contact through final feedback
- Therapeutic: encourages therapeutic self-discovery and new understanding
- Dynamic: describes an interactive approach to psychological assessment that involves evaluation, intervention, and evaluation
Psychological Tests
- Devices or procedures designed to measure variables related to psychology
- Comprise content, format, item, administration procedures, score, and scoring
- Content refers to the subject matter
- Format refers to the form, plan, structure, arrangement, or layout
- Item is a specific stimulus to which a person responds overtly
- Administration procedures can be one-to-one or group-based
- Score is a code or summary statement that reflects an evaluation of performance on a test
- Scoring is the process of assigning scores to performances
- Cut-Score is a reference point used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications
- Psychometric soundness refers to technical quality
- Psychometrics is the science of psychological measurement
- A psychometrist or psychometrician is a professional who uses, analyzes, and interprets psychological data
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Learn about the process of measuring psychology-related variables using devices or procedures to obtain a sample of behavior, and how to gather and integrate psychological information for assessment.
