PSY 451 Exam 4

Placement
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Placement
used to determine the extent to which students possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to understand new material and how much already know
Formative
help teachers determine what info students are and are not learning during the instructional process
Diagnostic
in-depth evaluation of an individual
Summative
help determine what students do and do not know and to assign earned grades
Norm-Referenced
standardized tests in which one test taker's score is compared with the scores of a group of test takers who previous took the test
Criterion-Referenced
tests that compare a test taker's score with an objectively stated standard of achievement
Authentic Assessment
· assessing a student's ability to perform real-world tasks by applying the knowledge and skills learned
Evidence-based treatment/practice
· doing research to see what works/doesn't work and who it works for; reference literature
Structured interviews
· require the interviewer to follow a fixed format in asking questions
Behavior rating scales
· require an informant (parent or teacher) to rate a client with regard to very specific behaviors
symptom check-list/self-reportrate own behaviorcomprehensive self-reportused for planning treatment and for consultation; honesty; self-reflectionperformance-based/projectivemight take out some of the issues of self-reporttraditional interviewinterviewer pursues different areas of inquiry about each candidatestructured interviewstandardized, with the same questions asked of each candidateperformance testwork sample; broad range of assessment that require the test taker to perform one or more jobspersonality inventoriesmeasure enduring constructs [personality traits]integrity testingpolygraphcognitive testsassessments that measure the test taker's mental capabilitiesvaliditymeta-analysishigh-fidelityreplicate job settings as realistically as possiblelow-fidelitysimulate the task using a written, verbal, or visual descriptionmeta-analysiso a statistical technique that accumulates the results of multiple studies on comparable or similar constructs into a single result o The idea is that by combining the results of multiple studies into a single, larger analysis, one can reduce the impact that statistical artifacts have on the results