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29 Cards in this Set
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Group Mental Ability Tests |
Elementary and secondary schools with the achievement tests Predicting success in college graduate and professional schools Job selection or placement in military and business Research |
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Predicting Success in College |
SAT, ACT two dominant tests GRE LSAT |
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Large Group |
20 to 50 examinees |
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Common Characteristics |
Administered to large groups Multiple-choice machine scored Content similar to individual tests Fixed time & fixed number of items Lasts 1 or 3 hours Total score plus several subscores Research bases is very large Principal purpose is prediction |
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Research Bases Very Large |
Generate a large research pool good reliability data |
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Multiple-choice machine scored |
PPVT-III |
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Verbal and nonverbal scores verbal and quantitive scores |
Total score plus several subscores |
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Principal purpose prediction |
Predict performance in school ranging from earliest grades primary to graduate and professional |
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OLSAT school testing programs |
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test Cognitive skills cognitive abilities test |
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OLSAT |
Multi-level test age or grade verbal quantitive and figural reasoning skills |
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OLSAT Structure |
Structure and items, examinee can take a level or seal to move to the next level School administrator makes the decision about what level the test to administer to a group of students A group of very bright students might do better on level D then see as they might top out on Level C. OVER LAP in coverage. |
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OLSAT scores norms standardization |
Total cluster and anticipated achievement comparisons Scaled scores rarely used for practical interpretation Converted to school ability index SAI M = 100 and SD = 16, same score system as the old IQ Determined separately for age groups in three month intervals from 5 to 19 |
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OLSAT Reliability |
KR-20 reliabilities Good = .89 to .94 Academic achievement |
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OLSAT Validity |
Claims content or face validity Lower validity but good predictive validity |
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SAT assessment |
Scholastic Aptitude to Acheivement Test Critical reading mathematics and writing, reasoning and subject High stakes testing 200 to 800 M = 500 SD = 100
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ACT |
American College test English math reading and science reasoning Pure achievement test less cognitive and more academic M = 20 SD = 5 |
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ETS Educational Testing Service |
Nonprofit test development organization |
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Generalization SAT ACT |
Reliability good .85 to .90 Validity scores range restriction Fair .50 to .60 .50 = statistically significant Normed every year |
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GRE Graduate Record Examination |
General test verbal reasoning quantitative reasoning and analytical writing shows cognitive ability M = 150 SD = 10 Verbal and quantitive test high reliable scores validity is low |
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Military selection test |
GATB General aptitude test battery US Department of Labor ASVAB Armed Services vocational aptitude battery All branches of the military military norms from 1997 reliability High .90 validity Low .60 |
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Business selection test |
Wonderlic Personnel Test HR TEST 12 MIN Reliable and validity Mental ability test predictive nature makes it like achievements test |
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Culture fair tests of mental ability |
Pure Ravens progressive matrix closest to pure created in 1938 Three levels colored standard and advanced Matrix type items nonverbal Culturally unbiased but not always true and doesn't measure total intelligence because lack of expression |
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Intelligence test for micro cultures |
Highly specific subculture is a micro culture Used to discredit conventional mental ability test |
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Generalization Group mental ability tests |
Content: vocabulary verbal relations reading quantitive spatial Reliability: total scores very high subscores moderate some very low Predictive validity: usually in the .30 to .60 range low fairing Differential validity: generally poor
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Differential validity |
Knowing exactly what you are not testing for |
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2 special statistical issues |
Range restriction and imperfect reliability |
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Culture free test |
Elusive so far it's hard to have a culture free test in intelligence |
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SAT Data |
Data is only some students that actually get into college |
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Stainine Scores |
Standard score M = 5 SD = 2 123 are below average 456 are average 789 are above average |
