Psychological Assessment PDF

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This document details the properties and principles of psychological assessment and testing, including different types of tests, tools of evaluation, and psychometric concepts. It also discusses various aspects of the assessment process.

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Psychological Assessment #BLEPP Source: Cohen & Swerdlik (2018), Kaplan &...

Psychological Assessment #BLEPP Source: Cohen & Swerdlik (2018), Kaplan & Saccuzzo (2018), Groth & Wright (2016), Psych Pearls - Ecological Momentary: “in the moment” evaluation Hellow, future RPm! of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the very time and place that they occur Doubt is definitely going to eat you this review season. I - Collaborative: the assessor and assesee may work as just want you to know that it is very VALID to feel that “partners” from initial contact through final feedback way. But always remember to go back to the reason why - Therapeutic: therapeutic self-discovery and new you are doing this. understanding are encouraged - Dynamic: describe interactive approach to May this reviewer help you pass the boards like it did to psychological assessment that usually follows the me and to many people that I know intervention of some sort > evaluation We will be remembered o Psychological Test – device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology  Content: subject matter Psychometric Properties and Principles (39)  Format: form, plan, structure, arrangement, Psychometric Properties essential in Constructing, layout Selecting, Interpreting tests  Item: a specific stimulus to which a person Psychological Testing - process of measuring responds overtly and this response is being psychology-related variables by means of devices or scored or evaluated procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior  Administration Procedures: one-to-one basis or - numerical in nature group administration - individual or by group  Score: code or summary of statement, usually - administrators can be interchangeable without but not necessarily numerical in nature, but affecting the evaluation reflects an evaluation of performance on a test - requires technician-like skills in terms of  Scoring: the process of assigning scores to administration and scoring performances - yield a test score or series of test score  Cut-Score: reference point derived by judgement - minutes to few hours and used to divide a set of data into two or more Psychological Assessment - gathering and integration classification of psychology-related data for the purpose of making  Psychometric Soundness: technical quality psychological evaluation  Psychometrics: science of psychological - answers referral question thru the use of different measurement tools of evaluation  Psychometrist or Psychometrician: refer to - individual professional who uses, analyzes, and interprets - assessor is the key to the process of selecting tests psychological data and/or other tools of evaluation - requires an educated selection of tools of evaluation, skill in evaluation, and thoughtful organization and integration of data - entails logical problem-solving that brings to bear many sources of data assigned to answer the referral question - Educational: evaluate abilities and skills relevant in school context - Retrospective: draw conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as they existed at some point in time prior to the assessment - Remote: subject is not in physical proximity to the person conducting the evaluation The reviewers I made are FREE :D instead of selling it, you can share the drive link to others :D Let’s help each other

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