Principles and Foundation Assessment
Any systematic procedure for collecting information that is used to make inferences or decisions about the characteristics of a person.
What is Assessment?
Variables are considered discrete and can be place into one category. (Ex. name, list of word)
What is nominal scale?
Assessments used to help individuals understand themselves better and to find a career option to their liking.
What are Career Assessments?
Strong Interest Inventory
What is Career Assessment?
What are Codes of Ethics?
Interviews are more flexible, not completely standardized, and interview may probe and expand interviewee responses.
What are Semistructure interviews?
Consists of a true or absolute zero point. (ex. Age, height, weight)
These type of assessment assist counselors in understand the behavior or a particular individual, with the aim of making some decision about future course of action or making a prediction about the person's unique future behavior.
What is personality assessment?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What is Personality Assessment?
Codes of ethics and standard of practice are essential elements of.
What is Fair Assessment?
Using computers for test administration, scoring, and interpretation and for generating narratives and written report.
What is Computer-base Testing?
A large group of individuals who took the test and on whom the test was standardized.
What is Norm Group?
What is Achievement Assessment?
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
What is Aptitude Assessment?
What are Multicultural Population?
Gathering background information relevant to the clients's current problem.
What is initial interview?
The psychometric property concerned with the consistency, dependability and productivity of test scores.
What is Reliability?
Tests measure an individual's capacity, or potential, for performing a given skill or task and are used to predict behavior.
What are Aptitude Assessments?
Woodcock-Johnson III Test
What is Achievement Test?
One of the principle threats to fairness: accessibility and universal design.
What is Measurement Bias?
Tests that have structure test materials, specific instructions for administration, and specific scoring methods.The scores generally proven reliability and validity.
What is Standardized Tests?
When applied to measurement, ________ refers to the claims and decisions made on the basis of assessment results are sound, meaningful, and useful for the intended purpose of the results
What is Validity?
Assessing ________ typically encompasses measuring one's ability to understand complex ideas, adapt effectively to the environment, think abstractly, learn from experience, learn quickly, and engage in various forms of reasoning.
What is Intelligence Assessment?
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)
What is Intelligence Assessment?
What is Acculturation?