Chapter 2
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- It is believed that tests and testing programs first came into being here as early as 2200 BCE
- Attempts to categorize people in terms of personality types (humoral theory)
- During this period, psychological assessment in the modern sense began to emerge.
- He anticipated psychology as a science and psychological measurement as a specialty within that science.
- He aspired to classify people according to their natural gifts and to ascertain their deviation from average.
- Who spurred scientific interest in individual difference.
- He developed the product-moment correlation technique.
- He focused on how people were similar not different.
- He dealt with individual difference specifically in reaction time. He also coined the term "mental test".
- He originated the concept of test reliability.
- He collaborated with Binet on papers to suggest how mental tests can be used to measure higher-mental process.
- He was an early experimenter with the word association technique as a formal test.
- Little-known founder of clinical psychology.
- The birth of first formal tests of intelligence.
- They published a 30-item measuring scale of intelligence designed to help identify Paris school children with intellectual disability.
- "The aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with the environment" was the definition of intelligence offered by
- A personality test for civilian use that was based on Personal Data Sheet.
- This refers to a process whereby assessees themselves supply assessment related information by responding to questions, keeping a diary, or self-monitoring thoughts or behaviors.
- It is a test in which an individual is assumed to "project" onto some ambiguous stimulus his or her own unique needs, fears, hopes, and motivation.
- The best known of all projective test.
- A test designed for use with people from one culture but not from another.
- Issues About Culture and Assessment
- It is the voluntary and mandatory efforts undertaken by federal, state, local governments to combat discrimination and to promote equal opportunity for all in education and employment.
- Defines the standard of care expected of members of that profession.
- The level at which the average, reasonable, and prudent professional would provide diagnostic or therapeutic services under the same or similar conditions.
- A selection procedure whereby a fixed number of % of applicants from certain backgrounds were selected.
- It refers to the consequence of an employer's hiring or promotion practice that was intentionally devised to yield some discriminatory result or outcome.
- -No license required, teacher-mode tests.
- This require some technical knowledge of test construction and use and of supporting psychological and educational fields such as statistics, individual differences, psychology of adjustment, personnel psychology, and guidance.
- This require substantial understanding of testing and supporting psychological fields together with supervised experience in the use of these devices.
- Rights of Test Takers: