Why, Whats, and Hows
In this class, the areas of academics, social, cognitive, emotional, and environmental are considered these
What are "domains?"
The idea of assessment of traits and/or conditions can easily promote the development of dangerous and inhuman notions such as this area of study concerned with the "selection" of certain traits to continue over generations.
What is eugenics?
The type of scale in which the ratings reflect a particular order and have equal intervals between the ratings but do not have a true zero, so you cannot say that one score is "twice" or "half" of another
What is an "interval" scale?
An observed/obtained score is always made up of an individual's "true" score plus this.
The two biggest categories of things to consider when it comes to content validity
What are "relevance" and "coverage?"
Tally-event sampling, ABC narratives, and running records are all forms of this type of assessment
What is "observational assessment?"
This hypothesis proposes that differences between groups (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity) in mean test scores are due to artifacts of the test or measurement, and not due to true group differences
What is the Cultural Test Bias Hypothesis?
This type of test compares one's performance to a set standard of mastery of the material.
What is a "criterion-referenced" test?
Increasing the length of a test has this effect on reliability
What is that it increases reliability?
True or False: validity is considered an aspect of the test itself
What is "False." Validity also concerns how the test is used and for what purpose
When an act of observation changes the nature of what is being observed
What is "reactivity?"
FAPE, proper assessment, and the least restrictive environment are all requirements of this
What is "IDEA?"
Isiah received a score of 80 on a test with 100 potential points and did better than 65% of his peers. His percentile was this.
What is the 65th percentile?
This is a special type of correlation that is used as an alternative to kappa in order to compare ratings of observers.
Identifying a problem in a child when the child doesn't actually have that problem
What is a "False Positive?"
Asking a child to draw a picture of their family or to tell a story about what is happening in an ambiguous picture are examples of this type of assessment
What are (direct) projective tests?
A professional administering a test that they are not trained in can be considered a breach of this set of guidelines
What is "boundaries of competence?"
These types of converted scores always have a mean of 50 and a SD of 10
What are t-scores?
Test-rest reliability should not be used for these types of characteristics
What are "transient" or "unstable" characteristics (such as daily hassles or mood).
A test that is able to identify/catch most children with a particular conditions is said to be high in this.
What is "sensitivity?"
A set of tests that have been put together in order to answer a specific question is referred to as this
Alfred Binet is considered to have created the first of this
What is an intelligence test?
If normally distributed data have a mean of 60 and a standard deviation of 5, what percentage of scores fall between 50 and 70?
What is about 95% of scores?
A range of scores that will contain an individual’s true score with a given probability
What is a "confidence interval?"
A multimethod-multitrait matrix is most helpful for examining these two types of validity
What are convergent and discriminant/divergent validity?