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Achievement and Personality Tests
Intelligence Tests
Aptitude and Career Choices
Test Bias
The Law, Testing, and Ethics
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A personality test attempts to measure what?
What are traits.
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Who was the first to postulate that there was a "g" factor related to the evaluation of intelligence.
What is Charles Spearman
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He developed the six occupational themes.
Who is John Holland.
100
Samuel Messick is known for his work in this type of validity evidence.
What is Consequential Validity
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act became law in 1997. When it was reauthorized, what is the new name it is known as?
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.
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This type of test is utilized to determine if a student has achieved a specific level of mastery in a content area.
What is Criterion-referenced test.
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Who is well-known for his theory of multiple intelligences?
Who is Howard Gardner.
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This career test is self-administered, self-scored, and self-interpreted.
What is the Self-Directed Search?
200
When a judge examines a test for potential test bias, this is called what.
What is Face Validity
200
The predecessor to IDEA, The Education of Handicapped Children Act which was signed into law in 1975, is also known as what?
What is Public Law 94-142
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This personality inventory consists of ten categories along which the examinee is rated.
What is the MMPI-II
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When examining the two types of intelligence, which would best describe the knowledge that is learned through education and environmental experiences?
What is Crystalized intelligence?
300
An aptitude test is typically designed to measure potential performance. This is called what?
What is Predictive Validity.
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What term is associated with the situation where individuals are concerned with the social values that underlie the usage of a test.
What is test fairness
300
What is the purpose of NCLB?
What is to close the achievement gap in education
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Name the factors of the Big 5 personality theory upon which many personality tests are based on
What is OCEAN - openness, concientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
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Daniel Goleman is best known for his popularization of what type of intelligence?
What is Emotional Intelligence
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Of the six occupational themes, those individuals who are "problem solvers" would most likely score in which category.
What is Investigative.
400
When a test score can be predicted based on group membership, what is a potential result?
What is 1) test bias exists or 2) the score will be an overestimation or 3) the score will be an underestimation of the true score
400
What does FERPA stand for and what is the main purpose?
What is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and the purpose is to allow access to educational records to the parents/legal guardians.
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Which level of Bloom's taxonomy asks that students compare and discriminate between ideas?
What is Synthesis.
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What is the highest point on a test where a test taker has to miss a minimum of items in order to discontinue the subtest?
What is the Ceiling.
500
The development of the Strong Vocational Interest Battery was begun by Edward Strong and based on his work with this people group.
Who is military personnel.
500
When two groups differ on a factor unrelated to the test, such as gender or ethnicity, name two assumptions that can be made in this situation.
What is the difference is true, the difference reflects some environmental contingencies, or test bias is present (name 2 of these 3)
500
Define these two terms: LRE and FAPE
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (the setting where the child with a disability can have the most access to the general education environment and peers while receiving the necessary supports), and the Free and Appropriate Public Education (each child is guaranteed a free education that meets their individualized needs)