Testing vs Assessment pt1
A measuring device or procedure
What is Test/Testing?
They are the ones that create tests or other methods of assessment
Who is a test developer
This refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserve archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and items relevant to an assessee.
What is Case History Data?
The use of tests and other tools to evaluate abilities and skills relevant to success or failure in a school or pre-school context
What is educational assessment?
This Swiss psychiatrist's inkblot test became a controversial but iconic projective measure of personality.
Who is Hermann Rorschach?
The science of psychological measurement
What is Psychometrics?
This refers to anyone who is the subject of an assessment or an evaluation
Who is Test-Taker?
It is a tool of assessment wherein assessees are directed to act as if they were in a particular situation.
What is Role-play test?
Refers to the use of tools of psychological evaluation to gather data and draw conclusions about a subject who is not in physical proximity to the person or people conducting the evaluation
What is remote assessment?
They (2) invented the first practical intelligence test
Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon
The process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior
What is Psychological Testing
It is a code or summary statement, usually but not necessarily numerical in nature, that reflects an evaluation of performance on a test, task, interview, or some other sample of behavior.
What is score?
It is the monitoring of the actions of others or oneself by visual or electronic means while recording quantitative and/or qualitative information regarding those actions
What is Behavioral Observation?
The use of evaluative tools to draw conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as they existed at some point in time prior to the assessment
What is retrospective assessment?
This German psychologist established the first psychology laboratory in 1879, where he developed experimental methods that would later influence the standardization of psychological tests.
Who is Wilhelm Max Wundt?
Pertains to the form, plan, structure, arrangement, and layout of test items as well as to related considerations such as time limits; it is also used to refer to the structure in which a test is administered: computerized, pencil-andpaper, or etc
What is Format/Test Format?
This term refers to the individual (e.g., psychologist, educator, or employer) who administers, scores, interprets, or applies the results of a psychological test.
Who is Test-User?
It is method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange, in which one party takes note of both verbal and nonverbal behavior, taking note of not only the content of what is said, but also the way it is being said
What is Interview?
Refers to the “in the moment” evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the exact time and place that they occur
What is ecological momentary assessment (EMA)?
This American psychologist refined the Stanford-Binet test and introduced the IQ (Intelligence Quotient) formula.
Who is Lewis Terman?
In the context of testing and assessment, this refers to the form, sheet, or booklet on which a testtaker’s responses are entered
What is Test Protocol?
It is is a reference point, usually numerical, derived by judgment and used to divide a set of data into two or more classifications
What is cut score?
Refers to when researchers venture outside of the confines of clinics, classrooms, workplaces, and research laboratories in order to observe the behavior of humans in a natural setting—that is, the setting in which the behavior would typically be expected to occur.
What is Naturalistic observation?
Refers to assessment that helps individuals understand and solve their problems
What is therapeutic psychological assessment?
This American psychologist, a student of Wundt, coined the term 'mental test' and was the first professor of psychology in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania.
Who is James McKeen Cattell?