Psychometrics

College admission tests such as the ACT have been given to students across the country since the 1950s. Short for American College Testing, this college readiness assessment is a test for high school students. For the last 15 years Illinois has been administering the ACT to students during the school day free of charge. Recently Illinois made a proposal to drop the ACT and give juniors the SAT instead. The decision is surrounded by lots of controversy. I believe that Illinois should allow…

Testing for a lot of people is considered to be what I think of as a hard thing to have to do. Why I think and feel this way is because the most test that someone has to take is taken with having a reason behind it and to follow. Testing is completed to determine what you know or has learned about something. There are many reasons why we have to take a test. Some of the reasons for taking a test is in school to learn where each child’s knowledge of education stands, driving test to receive your…

Standardized Testing: The con Standardized tests should be eliminated because student achievement hasn't been improved. Standardized tests is said that it has not increased creativity or curiosity on education. According to late education researcher Gerald W. Bracely, “Qualities that standardized tests cannot measure include creativity, critical thinking, resilience, motivation, persistence, curiosity, endurance,reliability, enthusiasm, empathy, self awareness, self discipline,…

The test responses should be typed. Select 25 items to answer out of the 50 items. Use the American Psychological Association (APA) Format to prepare the test. A cover sheet and a reference page(s) are required. An abstract is not required. The document is due in the eLearn dropbox on 10/08/2015 by 11:59pm cst. Define price takers¬: Price taker is a provider who has no power to influence the prices set by the marketplace. What is the difference between a price taker and a price setter? Price…

Introduction Dawn Bennett-Alexander and Laura Hartman (2015) stated pre-employment testing begin in 1950, and since then has been considered necessary to the employment hiring process (p.161). Pre-employment testing usually takes place before hiring (although sometimes after hiring) to establish qualities such as integrity, honesty, drug and alcohol use, health status, and other characteristics (Bennett-Alexander et al, 2015, p.161). A popular pre-employment test is the polygraph test…

High stakes assessments are a method which has been utilised on a global level to test the knowledge of students. There can be a number of purposes for the tests however they must be accountable to be considered high staked. All of the sources chosen discuss aspects of HSA or examples of HSA such as HSC or NAPLAN. They include opinions about the impacts of HSA, why HSA is so important today compared to when it was first introduced and the alternatives to this stress causing method. By drawing on…

The Allen Cognitive Scale is just one of several tools we use to create a personalized recommendation for care. Created by occupational therapist Claudia Allen, it’s an advanced way to identify a resident’s abilities, monitor change over time, help plan treatment and guide placement in our residences. There are six levels in the Allen Scale ranging from Coma (0.8) to "Normal" (6.0). Each level has three components: attention, motor control and verbal performance. In "Level 1", all needs must be…

One of the peer-reviewed academic journals I found useful was “Addressing Test Anxiety in Inner City Schools through Play and Performance.” This particular case study came about because of the seriousness and the increase of accountability being emphasized on standardized tests. The rigorousness of standardized tests has generated test anxiety among many students. The purpose of this study was to explore a new approach to this problem. This case study demonstrates the findings of a program…

2. There is a good, positive correlation between the six variables in the HC scale. The Cronbach Alpha is .769. From looking at the Inter-Item Correlation if I delete any variable the Cronbach Alpha will go down so there is no need to delete anything. The SE scale Cronbach Alpha was .686, after looking at the Inter-item Correlation chart all of the variables were positive but there were a few variable that were low. If I was to delete any variable the Cronbach Alpha would decrease. So the…

Informative and Persuasive: “U.S Schools are too focused on standardized tests, poll says” In Lynsey Layton’s The Washington Post article, “U.S Schools are too focused on standardized tests, poll says” posted in August 2015, she discusses how the public have centered their attention on standardized testing rather than the credentials of the teachers individually. The context of this article is over publicizing standardizing testing, all while putting standardizing in the spotlight all of the…