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Worked with Theodore Simon to assess Parisian schoolchildren
Who is Alfred Binet?
This law was established during George W. Bush's presidency in 2002 to ensure all children met or exceeded their state's achievement requirements.
What is No Child Left Behind?
This widely-used career test will not show your "weak" areas of interest
He developed a theory of intelligence focused on the ability to manage and understand emotions & solve problems involving emotional issues
Who is Daniel Goleman?
What is a z-score?
Darwin's cousin who was the 1st person to test individual differences in his lab
Who was Francis Galton?
A follow up to the No Child Left Behind Act, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), was established during this man's presidency in 2015
Who is Barack Obama?
Tests like the MMPI and the NEO Personality Inventory are known as this type of personality test because they have clear, unambiguous stimuli
What is objective?
This model separated crystallized from fluid intelligence
What is the Horn-Cattell model?
This is being measured with an internal consistency statistic like Cronbach's alpha
What is reliability?
Established the Stanford-Binet intelligence test in 1916 in the US
Who is Louis Terman?
IEPs were established with this law passed in 1997
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
For aptitude tests like the Minnesota Clerical Test (MCT), this type of validity is especially important
What is predictive criterion validity?
This is the general underlying ability or factor from Spearman's theory
What is g?
On a normal curve, approximately this % of scores falls within 2 SDs of the mean
What is 95%?
Popularized tutoring services in 1945
Who is Stanley Kaplan?
The Truth in Testing Law was established in this state in 1979 to increase openness and transparency around testing procedures
What is New York?
This projective personality test presents cards to clients and asks them to explain what is happening in the picture, what happened before the picture, and what will happen next
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
His theory described 8 different types of intelligences
Who is Howard Gardner?
Children ranking items in a fear hierarchy involves this type of scale measurement
What is ordinal?
Harvard paleontologist who criticized IQ testing in his book The Mismeasure of Man
Who is Stephen Jay Gould?
This is another name for the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which was passed in 1971 to protect students' privacy
What is the Buckley Amendment?
Hope you are not color-blind if you are taking this widely-used neuropsychological test of executive function
What is the Stroop test?
He created the Primary Mental Abilities Test, using factor analysis to examine one vs. multiple factors of intelligence
Who is Louis Thurstone?
This quote by Lilienfeld exemplifies his criticism of projective tests for having negligible amounts of this type of validity
What is incremental validity?