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In the Beginning...One Potato, Two Potatoes
Aptitude & Achievement
Reliable, Valid Psychometrics
Personality and Such..
Smarty Pants
100
The earliest known forms of testing began in which country, or region, almost 3,000 years ago?
What is China?
100
This type of test assesses knowledge in a particular content area, or of a specific topic. It is also the most common type of test used each year.
What is an achievement test?
100

Dr. Dre is concerned that the items on his test really do adequately represent the universe of items for which the test is designed. He is worried about this type of validity.

What is a content validity?
100

****Quad Jeopardy****

When test scores vary across different groups due to factors not related to the purpose of the test, this is an example of ______.

What is test bias?
100

This researcher was the first to propose that there is a general factor that accounts for intelligent behavior

Who is Charles Spearman?
200
This type of test would be used to assess an individual's job-related interest?
What is a vocational or career test?
200
This type of test evaluates an individual's potential
What an aptitude test?
200

If you want to know that a test measures some underlying psychological concept/construct, this is the type of validity evidence you would want to collect.

What is construct validity?

200

This type of validity evidence has been proposed by Samuel Mesick

What is the consequential validity?
200

This type of intelligence focuses on the structures that underlie intelligent behavior, including the acquisition of knowledge

What is componential intelligence?
300
This type of test assesses an individual's unique and stable set of characteristics, traits, or attitudes.
What is a personality test?
300

When an assessment compares the performance of a child against other children of the same age it is called a(n) ______.

What is a norm-referenced test?

300

******Double Jeopardy*******

If you correlate scores from your test with some other valid measure that assesses the same set of abilities, you are collecting this type of validity evidence

What is criterion validity?

300

This type of personality test has very clear and of unambiguous questions, stimuli, or techniques for measuring personality traits

What is objective personality tests?
300

**********Double Jeopardy************

This person was responsible for writing both the administration and scoring procedures for Stanford-Binet, thus leading to the change in its name

Who is Lewis Terman?

400
Coined the term mental test in 1890.
Who is Cattell?
400

**********Double Jeopardy**************

This type of test is used when you want to determine if a student has achieved a specific level of mastery in a particular criteria or content area

What is a criterion-referenced test?

400

This term is used to describe the ability of a measurement tool to consistently measure something

What is reliability?
400
This flavor of reliability is used when you want to know if the items on a test assess one, and only one, dimension.
What is internal consistency reliability?
400

This is the lowest point on an intelligence test where the test taker can pass two consecutive items of equal difficulty

What is the basal, or basal age/point/limit?
500
In 1937, the SAT test became required for admission to these colleges/university, known for their stellar academics (but also for people who think that they are smarter than everyone else, even though they really aren't.) Think type of school or the conference/league.
What are Ivy League universities?
500

*******Triple Jeopardy***********

In order to determine the potential for performance in a future setting, an aptitude test must have this type of validity.

What is predictive validity?

500

*******Triple Jeopardy******

These score accounts for day-to-day differences between testing scores

What are error scores?
500
This flavor of reliability is used when you want to know if several different forms of a test are reliable or equivalent
What is parallel forms reliability?
500

This type of intelligence, according to Howard Gardner’s MI theory, is concerned with the ability to solve problems.

What is logical-mathematical intelligence?