Ability Tests
This Ability is a composite of Vocabulary, Arithmetic Reasoning, and Three dimensional Space.
What is General Learning Ability (Intelligence) IQ
What are two examples of Culturally Fair Tests?
What is Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT)
and Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM)
This test is commonly used for entrance into a variety of graduate school programs.
What is the: GRE or Graduate Record Exam
This test was developed by the American Council of Education and administered for high school equivalent education.
What is the: Tests of General Education or GED
Putting Words In Chronological Order is an example of what cognitive ability?
What is Verbal Analogies
This test is given to those entering the Armed forces to help designate which positions fit an individual based on their composite score.
What is the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
This test that is designed to predict college performance has a national composite score of 21.1
Hint: You may have taken one of these in high school.
What is the: ACT or American College Test
This achievement test was designed in 1930 within New York City to measure student's achievement in their school curriculum. Hint: What is another name for a city area? (Starts with "M")
What is the: Metropolitan Achievement Test or (MAT)
Group Ability Tests Differ From Individual Tests In What Five Ways?
What is: multiple-choice or open-ended questions, machine scoring, group vs individual administration, applications in screening versus remedial planning, and huge compared to large standardization samples
This Aptitude test is comprised of eight different independent tests used to create a profile about each test taker
What is the Differential Aptitude Test (DAP)
This test was developed in the 1940's by deans of law schools and it is a very long standardized test that is administered for half a day.
What is the: LSAT or Law School Admission Test
This test was published in 1935 and is an achievement test intended for grades K to 8th grade with different levels. Hint: It was published in the state known for potatoes.
What is the: Iowa Tests of Basic Skills or ITBS.
This test was developed by the United States Department of Labor in the 1940s to match individuals with jobs that complement their abilities.
What is the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB)
This test measures a student's intellectual abilities for their age and grade level. Multiple versions of this test are made and administered to the appropriate students.
What is the Multilevel Battery Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT)
In 2015, this test included a trial section focusing on Psychological, Social, and Biological Functions of Behavior. No Hint!
What is the: MCAT or Medical College Admission Students
This type of scale is a major new improvement in the assessment of reading skill. No Hint!
What is the: Lexile scale or Lexile
This test is able to individualize questions based on the examinee's ability to answer the questions correctly in real-time.
What is the computerized adaptive test (CAT)
This group test can be used as a screening tool in counseling for just individual clients but examiners must keep in mind the potential abuse of this test when assessing clients, and a follow-up test is often advised especially with lower scores
What is the MAB-II
The GRE has three components with a verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing section. In 2012, the first two scores of the GRE-V and GRE-Q were standard scores of a mean of 150 with a range of 130 to 170. Prior to 2012, the mean and standard deviation of the GRE-V & GRE-Q were this
Mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100.
The Lexile measure for a reading selection is a number indicating the reading demand of the text based on these two variables.
What is Semantic difficulty (vocabulary) and Synaptic complexity (sentence length).