PSYCHOMETICS
COGNITIVE-NEURO ASSESSMENT
ACADEMIC/CAREER ASSESSMENT
BEHAVIORAL/EMOTIONAL ASSESSMENT
STRENGTH-BASED ASSESSMENT
100

Standard score referring to the percentage of people falling below an individual's score on a test

What is a percentile rank?

100
Author of the WPPSI, WISC, and WAIS measures of intelligence
Who is David Wechsler?
100

Assessment strategy for learning disabilities based on ability of client to learn from different teaching methods or in different settings

What is Response to Intervention?
100
Most widely used personality assessment for adults?
What is the MMPI?
100
Tennessee, Piers-Harris, and Coopersmith
What are self-esteem inventories?
200
IQ of 115, z score of 1, and t score of 60
What is one standard deviation above the mean?
200
100 and 15
What is the mean and standard deviation of IQ tests?
200
General term to describe an approach to linking instruction with assessment
What is Curriculum-Based Assessment?
200
Term used to describe the process of gathering information that identifies the antecedents and consequences of a student's problem behavior
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment?
200
The idea of addressing potential problems very early before they become serious
What is primary prevention?
300
Type of validity that describes the extent to which scores from one test instrument correlate with scores on another similar instrument
What is concurrent validity?
300
Popular measure of nonverbal intelligence made up of six subtests including Analogies, Categories, and Sequences
What is the CTONI-2?
300
WRAT
What is the Wide Range Achievement Test?
300
A comprehensive set of rating scales for teachers, parents, and students that assist in identifying both problem and adaptive behaviors for children and adolescents
What is the behavior Assessment System for Children?
300
Term describing the ability to "bounce back" from adversity
What is resilience?
400
Shape of a distribution of test scores where most are on the higher end
What is negatively skewed?
400

An early childhood screening measure of academic and cognitive skills, as well as other areas related to school success

What is the BRIGANCE?

400
Type of achievement test used to pinpoint specific problem areas in reading or mathematics?
What is a diagnostic achievement test?
400
Term used to describe a broad array of problem behaviors that create difficulties in the classroom and in the company of others
What are externalizing behaviors?
400
Term used traditionally in assessment to describe the broad range of factors that often predict academic and behavioral problems
What are risk factors?
500
Statistical term that provides a range within which one's true score on a test can be found
What is a Confidence Interval?
500
Term used to describe attention, memory, and organizational skills measured by neuropsychological tests
What is executive functioning?
500
Term used to describe the performance of a national comparative sample on a measure of academic achievement
What are norms?
500
Category of personality tests that utilize drawings, incomplete sentences, and responses to pictures to measure aspects of personality
What are projective tests?
500
Self-report measure developed by Martin Seligman to measure an individual's core qualities or personal assets
What is the Values in Action Scale?
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