Psychometrics

This essay will discuss why cognitive abilities tests are the best tool for selection and assessment in work organizations based on the findings of ( reference all 4 articles) While some stated that cognitive ability test results could be beneficial, others found that there are some disadvantages that come with taking the test. This essay will argue that cognitive ability tests have an advantageous impact in contemporary work organizations. Cognitive ability tests, also known as intelligence…

They user must possess the expertise needed to evaluate psychological tests for proper standardization, reliability, validity, interpretive accuracy, and other psychometric characteristics (Gregory, 2013, p.24). o Maria is a student intern at a community mental health organization and has never administered any psychological testing therefore she should be monitored or at the least shadowed in order to ensure that…

several areas including language and intellectual abilities, and the nonverbal auditory, visual-spatial, and motor skills of children ages 8 through 12. Clinicians and researchers should use caution when administering this battery, being aware of psychometric and conceptual deficiencies with respect to item generation, ensuring a reliable representation of the results. Overall, the LNNB-C has proven to be a reliable instrument in diagnosing the general and specific cognitive deficits of…

The overall intent of the oral assessment center is to score the candidate based on a set of measureable dimensions. These dimensions can range from problem solving and decision making to technical knowledge and experience. However, these wide ranging dimensions call into question the validity of an assessment center to measure dimensions. Moreover, some literature calls into question the ability of the assessment center to measure dimensions at all (John P. Meriac, 2014). Additionally, the…

to Hunter’s struggles with focus and difficulty attending to auditory instruction, his nonverbal score is felt to be an under representation of his actual performance. Repeated testing within the near future with this or a similarly constructed psychometric instrument would probably find Hunter scoring higher than an IQ band of 60 - 74. Analysis of KBIT-2 scores found Hunter demonstrating an unbalanced skill set between his verbal skills and his spatial, visually based skills. Hunter…

Self-efficacy has three dimensions: magnitude, the difficulty level of the task a person believes to attain; strength, the conviction regarding magnitude as strong or weak; and generality, the degree to which the expectation is generalized across situations (Redmond, 2016). Studies show the predictive and mediational role of self-efficacy beliefs in performing mathematical tasks successfully (Dullas, 2010; Galla & Wood, 2012; Guolao, 2014; Liu & Koirala, 2009; Pajares & Miller, 1994; Zimmerman,…

NGSE was an eight-item psychometric instrument, developed by Chen, Gully, and Eden (2001), to assess students’ beliefs regarding their learning capacity, competence, and goal orientation. Chen et al. (2001) reported that the NGSE attained high internal consistency reliability (r…

Reliability and Validity of Stress and Coping Styles Measurement Although extensive research has been conducted to analyze the factors influencing hopelessness depression (HD), there has been lesser research focused on the factors contributing to HD in adolescence. In “Daily stress and coping styles in adolescent hopelessness depression: Moderating effects of gender,” Rodriguez-Naranjo and Caño aimed to link daily stress and coping styles as factors contributing to HD in adolescence.…

On one side, The Social Readjustment Rating Scale SRRS), is a psychometric tool/ questionnaire developed by Holmes and Rahe in 1967 and revisited in 1997. It was initially used for well-established adults. The purpose of the scale is to detect the major stressful events, which can cause stress and its allies (depression, anxiety, and desperation) in your life. They also wanted to know its correlation with illness. This questionnaire evaluates the influence of internal or external stressors that…

Annotated Bibliography on Holland Person Environment Fit Magdalen Osei Brantuo Marymount University Annotated Bibliography Summary The aim of this study was to examine the level of similarity between scores on two Holland instruments; the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the Holland Personality Mosaic (HPM) and to provide information validating the HPM instrument (Miller et al., 2008). The study attempts to measure the convergent validity of the HPM by comparing the results of it to the SDS…