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[ ] scores permit comparisons between an examinee’s test performance and the performance of individuals in the norm group.
Norm-referenced
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[ ] scores permit interpreting an examinee’s test performance in terms of what the examinee can do or knows with regard to a clearly defined content domain or in terms of performance or status on an external criterion.
criterion-referenced
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[ ] are provided by ipsative scales and permit intraindividual comparisons - i.e., comparisons of an examinee’s score on one scale with his/her scores on other scales.
self-referenced scores
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Standardization
2 qualifiers
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Levels of Test User Qualifications
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Behavioral assessment focuses on [ ] and [ ] behaviors and utilizes various techniques including:
1) overt; covert behaviors
2) behavioral interviews, behavioral observation, protocol analysis and other cognitive measures, and psychophysiological measures.
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FBA
Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) is a type of behavioral assessment that involves identifying and altering the antecedents and consequences that are maintaining an undesirable behavior.
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Dynamic Assesment
Dynamic assessment was derived from Vygotsky’s method for evaluating a child’s mental development and involves deliberate deviation from standardized testing procedures to obtain additional information about an examinee and/or determine if he/she would benefit from assistance or instruction.
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Dynamic Assessment Types
3 types
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Testing the Limits
Testing the limits, a type of dynamic assessment, involves providing an examinee with additional cues, suggestions, or feedback and is ordinarily done after standard administration of the test to preserve the applicability of the test’s norms.
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CAT
computer assisted testing
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Actuarial predictions
based on empirically validated relationships between test results and target criteria and make use of a multiple regression equation or similar technique, while
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[ ] predictions are based on the decision-maker’s intuition, experience, and knowledge.
clinical
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Actuarial vs Clinical Predicitions
Studies comparing the two methods have generally found that the actuarial method alone is more accurate than clinical judgment alone.
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assessing children
age/advice
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most common way of collecting data from a large group
self-report
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Spearman Two-Factor Theory
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crystallized vs fluid
Horn and Cattell (1966)
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Carroll’s Three Stratum
III: general intelligence
II: eight broad abilities
I: specific abilities linked ot the 2nd stratum
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CHC
Cattell Horn Carroll
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convergent vs divergent thinking
Guilford
most intelligence tests focus on convergent
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triarchic theory
ACP
Sternberg’s triarchic theory defines “successful intelligence” as the ability to adapt to, modify, and choose environments that accomplish one’s goals and the goals of society and proposes that it is composed of three abilities - analytical, creative, and practical.
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confluence model
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IQ and heredity