cont. history
Terms
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- Standardized Achievement Testing
- Schools l920's and l930's
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published in l927
vocatinal counseling
widely use - Strong Interest Blank
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Mental Measurement Yearbook
critiques of instruments - Oscar Buros l939
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personality instrument
early l940's - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
- Public schools in l940's and 1950's
- standardized achievement testing
- Multiple aptitude bateries
- after l940's
- First set testing-related standards
- American Psychological Assocation
- Critical examination and evaluation of testing
- l960's and l970's
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assessment instruments
reated to ethnic bias, fairness, and accuracy - l980's and l990's
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- l980's
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Are scored using predetermined methods
no judgement from the individual - Objective Test
- professional judment in evaluating responses
- Subjetive Test
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Number of items
corectly
specific time - Speed Test
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items vary in difficulty
credit for difficult items - Power Test
- Control for the influences of languag and culture
- Non-verbal instruments
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assess cognition
processing, concrete and abstract thinking - Conitive Instruments
- Classifiesy by naming based on characteristics
- Norminal scale
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Degree of magnitude
rank ordering of the data - Ordinal Scale
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Mesurement units
equal intervals - Interval scale
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Properties of an inteval scale
meaning zero - Ratio Scale
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Pre-established standard or criterion
Measures mastery
Teacher test - Crierion-refernced instrument
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Person's score compared to others
Instrument (norm) - Norm-reference instruments
- Interpret Scores on Norm-reference test
- Stastistics
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A simple Chart or list
Frequency of score
number of people receiveing score - Frequency distribution
- Scores x axis, frequency on the y axis
- Prequency polygon
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Bar graph
typical or averge score - Histogram