Chapter 9: Intelligence
True of False: The stability of IQ from infancy to toddlerhood is generally lower than from toddlerhood to adulthood
True
What does RTI stand for and what is it's purpose?
Response to Intervention
An alternative method to identify students with learning disabilities through the implementation of academic interventions and monitoring of skill acquisition or lack of acquisition.
Name Four Overall Types of Validity
Face, Construct, Content, Criterion
You developed a new test and decided to correlate it with a criterion measure and the result was r = .45
Does this coefficient suggest adequate criterion validity for your measure?
No, would like to see at least .7 and up for adequate validity.
What is CBM and how it is similar to taking someone's temperature?
Curriculum Based Measurement - a screening tool in education. It is similar to how a fever tells us if something is wrong in the body but we need more diagnostic tools, CBM can give us an overall indicator of educational health but it won't tell us what to teach
An average rise in measured intelligence each year from the year a test was normed is known as?
The Flynn Effect
Public Law 94-142 established
Special Education services for children 3 and older
False - This is describing SEM
SEE - have to do with the estimate of the criterion
What does PASS stand for and what is it?
Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive
Information Processing Theory of Intelligence
How valid a test looks to those involved is known as
Face Validity
Spearman's Theory of Intelligence include two factors, what are they?
General intelligence (g) and specific intelligence
What is the difference between achievement tests and aptitude tests?
Achievement = formal learning
Aptitude = informal learning
Using the GRE to infer your performance in graduate school is a type of ____________ validity
Predictive
Infants & toddlers w/ disabilities must receive services in the home based on this law
PL 105-17 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [1997]):
What is the first standardized assessment you had to take?
APGAR
Organizing new information so that it fits with existing information is?
Assimilation
What types of assessments are typically used for preschool aged students?
Checklists, Rating Scales for Screening
In order to obtain content validity you would want to consult with?
Expert opinion and have them rank them
An evaluation of work samples chosen by person being evaluated
Portfolio assessment
What gender differences have been found on intelligence tests?
Boys tend to have stronger visual/spatial abilities and girls tend to have stronger verbal abilities
According to Binet, Wecshler, and Piaget - interactionism refers to
Interaction between heredity (nature) and environment (nurture).
Evaluation of relevant, meaningful tasks to examine learning, but that demonstrates transfer to real-world activities is known as?
Authentic Assessment
Tests are not “universally valid”, but used for these three things
•Particular purpose
•Particular population of people
•Particular time
Six million children have been diagnosed in the United States with this
Specific Learning Disability
IQ becomes stable at this age(s)
7 - 9 years old