selection of assessment method

• Test


  Measuring device or procedure
• Psychological Test


  • Device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology
• Types of Psychological Tests

  • Ability or Maximal Performance Test
  • Achievement Test
  • Aptitude Test
  • Intelligence Test
• Ability or Maximal Performance Test


  Assess what a person can do
• Achievement Test


  Measurement of the previous learning
• Aptitude


  Refers to the potential for learning or acquiring a specific skill
• Intelligence


  Refers to a person's general potential to solve problems, adapt to changing environments, abstract thinking, and profit from experience
• Human Ability


  Considerable overlap of achievement, aptitude, and intelligence test
• Typical Performance Test


  Measure usual or habitual thoughts, feelings, and behavior
• Personality Test


  Measures individual dispositions and preferences
• Types of Personality Tests

  • Structured Personality tests
  • Projective Personality Tests
  • Attitude Test
  • Interest Inventories
• Structured Personality tests


  Provide statement, usually self-report, and require the subject to choose between two or more alternative responses
• Projective Personality Tests


  Unstructured, and the stimulus or response are ambiguous
• Attitude Test


  Elicit personal beliefs and opinions
• Interest Inventories


  Measures likes and dislikes as well as one's personality orientation towards the world of work
• Purpose of Psychological Tests


  • For evaluation, drawing conclusions of some aspects of the behavior of a person, therapy, decision-making
• Settings for Psychological Tests

  • Industrial
  • Clinical
  • Educational
  • Counseling
  • Business
  • Courts
  • Research
• Populations involved in Psychological Tests

  • Test Developers
  • Test Publishers
  • Test Reviewers
  • Test Users
  • Test Sponsors
  • Test Takers
  • Society
• Levels of Psychological Tests

  • Level A - anyone under a direction of a supervisor or consultant
  • Level B - psychometricians and psychologists only
  • Level C - psychologists only
• Interview


  Method of gathering information through direct communication involving reciprocal exchange
• Types of Interviews


  • Structured
  • Unstructured
  • Semi-structured
  • Non-directive
• Mental Status Examination


  Determines the mental status of the patient
• Intake Interview


  Determine why the client came for assessment; chance to inform the client about the policies, fees, and process involved
• Social Case


  Biographical sketch of the client
• Employment Interview


  Determine whether the candidate is suitable for hiring
• Panel Interview (Board Interview)


  More than one interviewer participates in the assessment
• Motivational Interview


  Used by counselors and clinicians to gather information about some problematic behavior, while simultaneously attempting to address it therapeutically
• Settings for Interviews


  • Industrial
  • Clinical
• Populations for Interviews


  • Job Applicants
  • Children
• Computers


  Using technology to assess a client, thus, can serve as test administrators and very efficient test scorers
• Other Assessment Methods


  • Videos
  • Biofeedback devices