Psychometrics

When people hear the word Standardized test they typically think of a very long test that is probably not worth taking. In this generation, testing has become a more common to test a child’s academic levels. When teachers are told to prepare kids for these standardized tests they teach to the test, not to other knowledge children might need to know. Testing in general is used to show what knowledge a person has learned throughout a period of time. In most cases testing is pushed upon children.…

Eliminating the achievement gap has also become a common topic in society. The Boston Globe newspaper has an article by Martin Scanlan and Rebecca Lowenhaupt, professors at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, that considered the opportunity gap and how it coincides with the achievement gap. Their view is that if we focus on resolving the opportunity gap issue, and the achievement gap will fix itself. They say, “We can build educational equity in our school communities by turning…

Passer and Smith (2015) described intelligence to be defined by culture. So if culture is an underlying factor of intelligence it can become a problematic issue when assessing Indigenous Australians. Gardener’s multiple intelligence theory, along with Charles Spearman’s g factor theory and Lewis Terman Standford-Binet scales are all underlying theories which all address the same issues in the accuracy of assessments. Literature suggest that language, literacy skills, education and cultural norms…

Preface The following needs assessment illustrates National Association of School Psychology (NASP) Standard 2.9 requirements. A needs assessment is a program-level need to help determine what practices are working, and what practices need more strategies for success. This document demonstrates skills that were used to collaborate with teachers, evaluate and apply research, collect data, measurement and data analysis. Data collection was utilized to measure and analyze what practices at the…

Introduction The selection process is a deliberate effort to help the organization find suitable candidates who are likely to perform with maximum effectiveness (Aquinas, 2009). The design of the selection process becomes even more critical when hiring refugees from the African Community Center of the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC/ACC). While this refugee resettlement agency provides the Commercial Food Safety and Service (CFaSST) program to help refugees get training in the…

A standardized test is any form of an exam that requires every test taker to answer the same questions and that is scored in a consistent manner. Every student during their time in school will eventually take at least one. No student enjoys preparing for these extra tests, and some either will study a lot or none. Each student approach these exams differently. The way the students are taught can be highly influenced by the exam and what the material is. These are just two of many reasons why…

For this learning segment, the cognitive, affective, and physical domains are measured by assessments give during the learning segment In the cognitive domain a pre and post written test, cross word puzzle, labeling the lines on the field sheet and exit slips were used. To measure the psychomotor domain, I used pre and post skills tests and a score card for station 7 in lesson plan number 2. The affective domain is measured by the use of exit slips in lessons 2, 3, and at the end of this unit…

Standardized Testing Albert Einstein once smartly enlightened, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish for its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it’s stupid” (qtd. in Pettigrew). Every individual learns in his or her own way and holds genius talents that are unique to them. That being said, it is unfortunate that our society would judge each child, adolescent, or adult by the same national standards through standardized testing. Each student has a…

Parents and teachers need to know that the standardized tests may help their students, but they will not help all the students. The teachers and parents need to see that these tests do not measure their knowledge of the information they are taught, but rather what they can remember later in life. Standardized testing prevents teachers from teaching the parents well-rounded students because the teachers teach the instructional program for the students to be ready for the tests. The teachers teach…

Wartegg Drawing Assessment Bill Schaeffer Kutztown University The Wartegg Drawing Completion Test is a projective drawing test developed by Ehrig Wartegg throughout the late 1920’s and is used as an assessment tool in the psychological and counseling fields. The Wartegg Drawing Completion Test is not a common examination that is used in the United States, but my reasoning for using the Wartegg drawing Assessment is through experience and knowledge of the test obtained at the agency I currently…