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Short answer assessment |
Free choice, subjective |
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Forced choice |
Recognition items |
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Difficulty index |
Percentage of individuals who answered each item correctly |
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Multi-point |
Three or more Force choices |
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Ipsative tests |
Compare traits within the same individual and not to others who took the test |
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Spiral test format |
Questions from each domain are spread out, and items get progressively more difficult |
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Cyclical test |
Test composed of several spiral sections |
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Another name for a test battery |
Horizontal test |
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Achievement tests measure ______, while personality tests measure ______. |
Maximum performance; typical performance |
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Speed test |
Introduces difficulty in the time limitation and is purposely set up so nobody finishes |
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Power test |
The difficulty is in the content; there is no time limit |
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Main features of parallel tests |
They must have the same mean, standard deviation, and other statistics |
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Content validity |
Establishes whether a test thoroughly examines the behavior under study |
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Construct validity |
Establishes whether a test is able to measure a theoretical construct |
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Criterion validity |
Establishes how well a test correlates with an established standard of comparison |
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Three types of Criterion validity |
Predictive, concurrent, and retrospective |
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Consequential validity |
Evaluates the social implications of using |
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Incremental validity |
Describes the refinement and increasing validity of a test as contradictory |
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Synthetic validity |
Describes the synthesis of multiple tests that predict each component of a job that can be used for screening and selection |
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standard for reliability for high-stakes tests |
At least 80% |
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standard for reliability of tests of psychological attributes |
70% |
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Contribution of Francis Galton |
Determine that intelligence is normally distributed and primarily genetic |
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Charles Spearman |
Developed the two-factor theory of intelligence, the general and specific |
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JP Guilford |
Identified 120 factors that add up to intelligence, including convergent thinking and Divergent thinking |
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Kuder Richardson formulas |
Test for internal consistency reliability without needing to split the test into halves |
KR-20 and KR-21 |
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Alfred Binet was a Pioneer in IQ testing and... |
Projective testing and use of ink blots |
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Man who developed the ratio IQ |
William Lewis Stern |
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Ratio IQ equals |
Mental age divided by chronological age times 100 |
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Deviation IQ |
Compares the individual to a norm sample |
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The wechsler is a better test for _____, while the stanford-binet is better for _______. |
Those in the average range; those scoring at the extremes |
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Name of the score given from the sb5 |
The standard age score |
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Merrill Palmer scale of mental tests |
Intelligence tests for infants and children below 7 years |
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Pros and cons of group tests |
Allow for more efficient testing of many individuals; less accurate and lower reliability |
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Raymond Cattell |
Define fluid and crystallized intelligence and the 16 personality Factor questionnaire |
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Arthur Jensen |
Argued in 1969 that IQ scores were genetically determined |
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Robert Williams |
Created the black intelligence test of cultural homogeneity |
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Factor analytic tests |
Analyze data outside of a given Theory |
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Creator of the mental measurements yearbook |
Oscar k Buros |
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Bender visual motor Gestalt test |
Expressive projected measure that allows for Discerning whether brain damage is present |
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Social loafing |
A person in a group puts forth less effort than if she were attempting to accomplish the same goal individually |
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What impact does increasing a test length have on reliability? |
It raises reliability |
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