Education
Most assessment practices used in a variety of settings originated here
What are schools?
This is the reason for which an assessment process is undertaken; it can be refined or clarified using historical data and current functioning.
What is the Reason for Referral?
The study of psychological measurement
What is psychometrics?
Measuring student’s rate of change at pre-planned, equally spaced intervals
What is Progress Monitoring?
Testing that compares an individual’s test performance to that of a larger reference group or normative sample
What is Norm-Referenced Comparison?
This type of assessment, typically targeted towards academic and behavioral skills, helps identify previously unidentified needs.
What is universal screening?
The process of assigning things to categories based on common features or criteria
What is classification?
E.g., special education eligibility; low risk vs. high risk
Conceptual abstractions of phenomena that are not directly observable
What are constructs? (e.g., locus of control, curiosity)
The use of information to monitor student progress over the course of an intervention
What is formative assessment?
The percentage of individuals in the normative sample who achieved an equal or lower score
What is a percentile rank?
A large amount of assessment conducted by School Psychologists is for this purpose
What is Special Education Eligibility?
Observations or data collection that is not normed, but relevant behaviorally and/or clinically
What is qualitative data?
The degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretation of test scores for proposed uses of tests
What is validity?
The collection and use of information to evaluate student learning, after the teaching has been delivered
What is summative assessment?
Procedures for administering and scoring tests that are controlled, precise, and consistent
What is standardization?
This assessment process is conducted by a team of professionals with complementary areas of expertise
What is an interdisciplinary team?
The measurement of personal competencies that enhance coping, promote personal development, and allow individuals to set and accomplish goals
What is strength-based assessment?
The extent to which measures yield consistent scores and are free from these types of error
(AKA are differences in scores due to actual differences, or just error in measurement?)
What is reliability?
Different types of this psychometric concept include "content," "internal," "correlational," "consequential," and "face."
What is Validity?
Testing that compares an individual’s test performance relative to criteria that indicate the extent of content mastery
What is Criterion-Reference Comparison?
Implementing practices that are sensitive to differences in language, values, customs, and experiences
What is cultural responsiveness?
The taxonomies of proposed syndromes, diseases, or disabilities
What is Nosology?
**Used in diagnosis to group people
The score that the examinee obtains during test administration, with the understanding that error is unavoidable
What is the observed score?
The extent to which scores can be replicated across measurement occasions
What is Test-Retest-Reliability?
This type of classification can only be used by doctoral level School Psychologists
What is diagnosis?