1. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Class Final Exam & Project Review

2. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-2 A TALE OF TWO FINALS Description of the Final

3. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-3 Final Part I 30 Multiple Choice Items Each item is worth 3.3 points each It is worth 10% of your FINAL GRADE.

4. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-4 Final Part I: Topics Age Calculation Reasons for testing Case Conceptualization Standardization & Norming Basals/ Ceilings Central Tendency Variability Correlations Reliability Validity Standard Scores Test Critiques Test Selection (Ages) DSM-IV 5 Axis Dx

5. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-5 Final Part II 25 Multiple Choice Items Each item is worth 4 points each It is worth 10% of your FINAL GRADE.

6. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-6 Final Part II: Topics Statistical Concepts Scales Of Measurement Measures Of Central Tendency Indices Of Variability Shapes And Typed Of Distribution Correlations Reliability Validity Basics Of Standardized And Non-standardized Testing. Historical Perspectives Ethics Strategies Related To Testing

7. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-7 Age Calculation/ Test Selection Calculate the age: Date of Birth 12/1/1999 Date of Test 3/17/2011 Choose a Test Child/ Adult? Group/ Individual Ethnicity 2 nd Language Status Purpose of testing Psychometrics Places to go for more information.

8. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-8 Basals and Ceilings Basal = 5 in a row correct Ceiling = 3 out of 5 incorrect Is the basal/ Ceiling met? Calculate the raw score. 23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30 

9. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-9 Correlations BobJeff 1-  1-  2-  2-  3-  3-  4-  4-  5-  5-  Are these items correlated? If not, why not? If so, how are they correlated? Positive/ negative Strong/ weak -1 or 0 or +1

10. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-10 Correlations BobJeff 1-  1-  2-  3-  3-  4-  4-  5-  5-  Are these items correlated? If not, why not? If so, how are they correlated? Positive/ negative Strong/ weak -1 or 0 or +1

11. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-11 Converting Standard Scores IQ Deviation Scores 100 85 115 110 95 T-Scores ? ? ? ? ? Sten-Score ?

12. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-12 DSM-IV: Diagnoses Axis I Clinical Disorders Axis II Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation Axis III General Medical Condition Axis IV Psychosocial and Environmental Factors Axis V Global Assessment of Functioning Axis I: 296.32 Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent, Mild Axis II: 301.83 Borderline Personality Disorder Axis III: Asthma Axis IV: Occupational problems Axis V: GAF=80

13. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-13 ReferralInformationQuestionsTools

14. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-14 Different Types of Tests Rating Scales: Indicate which of the answers describes a person or situation on a continuum of choices. Forced Choice: Indicate which of the statements is correct. Free Choice: (also known as constructed- response) the respondent must make their own response instead selecting a response.

15. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-15 Types of Validity Content: the test items actually represent what you want to know (table of specifications, judges, etc.) Concurrent: your test measures the same as a similar tests Predictive: your test accurately predicts the outcome of something Construct: can you use your test to make inferences? (group differentiation studies, factor analysis, etc.)

16. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-16 Types of Reliability Test-Retest: Give the same test twice. Alternate Forms: Give parallell or equivalent forms of the test Internal Consistency: split the test in half and compare the two halves Interrater: have two or more people score the test to see if there are differences.

17. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-17 Reliability Coefficients Correlation coefficient (ranges 0 to 1). Ratio of true score variance to the observed score variance Reliability = scores on your test scores on a “perfect test” Having more items on your test provides a better mathematical chance at a higher score. Error = 1 - reliability Your test has reliability at.85 85% of the score is accurate/ reliable 15% of the score is error

18. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-18 A Little History Oscar Buros: founded the Mental Measurement Yearbook Series Raymond Cattell: Researched intelligence (fluid vs. crystallized) and developed the 16PF William Glasser: Developed “reality therapy.” Arthur Jensen: nature vs. nurture in IQ (believed lower scores = lower IQ not bias in test) Carl Jung: developed personality typology used in the Myers-Briggs Robert Williams: “ebonics” came from him as well as studies in Black Personality Theory

19. Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals, 7e Drummond/Jones © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 4-19 PSY 6645 I I NSTRUCTOR'S SUMMARY FORM ASSIGNMENT Final Project

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