Purpose of assessments:
The assessments that Sean took was for class credit. Sean is currently enrolled in Counseling 428 Measurement issues in Counseling where he was required to take three different assessment for college credit. This assessment activities included talking assessment, and scoring the different assessments.
Background:
Sean is currently a student at California University Los Angeles where he is majoring in Rehabilitation Services. In this major he had to take a Career Counseling class and he had to take some similar assessments. He had to take assessment related to finding different career that he would be interested at the campus career center. These different assessments were very similar to the SDS. He had received very …show more content…
He was given those assessments over a period of two different sessions on two different days. The first assessment that was given was the Wide Range Achievement Test 4(WRAT4). Sean was only asked to take two parts of the assessment the spelling portion and the math computation portion. On the spelling portion of the assessment he received a raw spelling score of 27. Which means that out of the 42 words he spelled 27 of those words correctly. It was assumed that he would be able to do the letter writing portion of the exam so he was given a perfect raw score of 15. When the two raw scores were added he earned a total spelling raw score of 42. When added to the standard score scale it equates to a standard score of 97. Which at a 90 percent confidence level has true score range between the scores of 90 and 105 with a standard error of measurement of 10%. This means that we are ninety percent sure that Sean’s true score on the spelling portion is between 90 and 95. When compared with the population he would be in the average achievement range of spelling. On the math portion of the assessment he received a raw score of 26. This means out of a total of 40 question he got 26 correct. When added to the assumed perfect score of 15 on the Oral math portion he has a total math computation raw score of 41. When added to the standard score scale he receives a standard score of 94. Which at a 90 percent confidence level has a true score range …show more content…
Sean enjoyed taking the assessment. He did not enjoy the math section of the test and he found himself getting frustrated. Although despite fading the math test frustrated and discouraging he did think that the results were fairly accurate. The SDS assessment is filled with a bunch of different questions that are designed to find out different careers that might be suitable for the test taker. Sean Enjoyed taking the assessment and he felt like the assessment to be very accurate and fits him. He looked at some of the jobs that fit in the social category. He found Rehabilitation Counselor, and Academic Advisor. Those are two different carriers that Sean has considered perusing so it seems to fit him. The last assessment that Sean took was the NEO-FFI-3. It is a type of personality assessment Sean enjoyed taking the assessment. He found the results to be fairly accurate and he felt like it was worth his time. Overall he enjoyed taking the assessment and found them to be really helpful and that he agreed with the
The assessments that Sean took was for class credit. Sean is currently enrolled in Counseling 428 Measurement issues in Counseling where he was required to take three different assessment for college credit. This assessment activities included talking assessment, and scoring the different assessments.
Background:
Sean is currently a student at California University Los Angeles where he is majoring in Rehabilitation Services. In this major he had to take a Career Counseling class and he had to take some similar assessments. He had to take assessment related to finding different career that he would be interested at the campus career center. These different assessments were very similar to the SDS. He had received very …show more content…
He was given those assessments over a period of two different sessions on two different days. The first assessment that was given was the Wide Range Achievement Test 4(WRAT4). Sean was only asked to take two parts of the assessment the spelling portion and the math computation portion. On the spelling portion of the assessment he received a raw spelling score of 27. Which means that out of the 42 words he spelled 27 of those words correctly. It was assumed that he would be able to do the letter writing portion of the exam so he was given a perfect raw score of 15. When the two raw scores were added he earned a total spelling raw score of 42. When added to the standard score scale it equates to a standard score of 97. Which at a 90 percent confidence level has true score range between the scores of 90 and 105 with a standard error of measurement of 10%. This means that we are ninety percent sure that Sean’s true score on the spelling portion is between 90 and 95. When compared with the population he would be in the average achievement range of spelling. On the math portion of the assessment he received a raw score of 26. This means out of a total of 40 question he got 26 correct. When added to the assumed perfect score of 15 on the Oral math portion he has a total math computation raw score of 41. When added to the standard score scale he receives a standard score of 94. Which at a 90 percent confidence level has a true score range …show more content…
Sean enjoyed taking the assessment. He did not enjoy the math section of the test and he found himself getting frustrated. Although despite fading the math test frustrated and discouraging he did think that the results were fairly accurate. The SDS assessment is filled with a bunch of different questions that are designed to find out different careers that might be suitable for the test taker. Sean Enjoyed taking the assessment and he felt like the assessment to be very accurate and fits him. He looked at some of the jobs that fit in the social category. He found Rehabilitation Counselor, and Academic Advisor. Those are two different carriers that Sean has considered perusing so it seems to fit him. The last assessment that Sean took was the NEO-FFI-3. It is a type of personality assessment Sean enjoyed taking the assessment. He found the results to be fairly accurate and he felt like it was worth his time. Overall he enjoyed taking the assessment and found them to be really helpful and that he agreed with the