Assessment procedure conducted without standardized administration and scoring rules.
What is an informal assessment?
100
Distribution of scores from lowest to highest or vice versa.
What is the range?
100
This type of scale has magnitude but no absolute zero. Position/order is important.
What is an ordinal scale?
100
The extent to which a test measures what it purports to measure.
What is validity?
100
The extent to which a test measures an underlying psychological quality or construct.
What is construct validity?
200
Standardized tests are considered this type of assessment.
What is a formal assessment?
200
The three most common measures of central tendency.
What are the mean, median, and mode?
200
Ethnicity is an example of data found on this type of scale.
What is a nominal scale?
200
Set of tasks or questions used to elicit particular types of behaviors. This type of assessment can be formal or informal.
What is a test?
200
One half of the test correlates well with the other half.
What is split-half reliability?
300
The method for finding the median in an even set of numbers.
What is ranking the numbers from least to greatest and then taking the two middle numbers and averaging them together?
300
This type of scale begins at an arbitrary starting point, no absolute zero, and intervals are equal between the units.
What is an equal interval scale?
300
Process of synthesizing and analyzing data to speculate on possible future outcomes of a situation based on present circumstances and information.
What is a prognosis?
400
Data in which the values/observations are distinct and separate. They can be counted.
What is discrete data?
400
The term used to describe the spread or distribution of a set of scores.
What is variability?
400
Money is an example of this type of scale. It has an absolute zero, intervals are equal, and the data can be manipulated mathematically.
What is a ratio scale?
400
The more I party, the less I study is an example of this type of correlation.
What is a negative correlation?
400
How well a test compares with a valued measure.
What is criterion validity?
500
Set of data in which the values can take on any value within a finite of infinite interval.
What is continuous data?
500
A descriptive statistic that describes every number's (each data point's) relationship to the mean. The higher this statistic, the more variability there is within a set of scores.
What is standard deviation?
500
IQ scores are an example of this type of measurement scale.
What is equal interval?
500
Collection of instruments or tests that are used in a formal assessment activity.
What is a test battery?
500
The two types of criterion validity.
What are concurrent (how well two measures correlate at same time) and predictive (how well a measure predicts future performance) validity?