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Developed by Robert Yerkes, the ______ is a language-free test that was designed for
individuals who could not read or were foreign born. ✔✔Army Beta
If a professional school c
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Developed by Robert Yerkes, the ______ is a language-free test that was designed for
individuals who could not read or were foreign born. ✔✔Army Beta
If a professional school counselor wants to know if a student is ready to move to the next grade
level, she should administer a(n)... ✔✔maximal performance test
The Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1984 (Carl D. Perkins Act)... ✔✔provides
disadvantaged populations access to vocational assessment, counseling, and placement services
A professional counselor releases a client's test results to a bachelor's level case manager who
has no training in testing and assessment. What ethical guideline was violated? ✔✔Release of
results to qualified professionals
Which source is designed to provide the layperson with understandable assessment information?
✔✔Test Critiques
Which of the following is NOT true about test validity?
a. Validity should always be reported in terms of test purpose and intended population.
b. Test scores do not have to be valid to be reliable
c. A validity coefficient of .25 is high
d. False positive errors contribute to a lack of test score validity ✔✔A validity coefficient of .25
is high
What formula would you use to measure the interitem consistency of a test with a Likert-type
scale? ✔✔Cronbach's coefficient alpha
If a math test item has positive item discrimination, it can be said that... ✔✔more student who
knew the material answered the question correctly than students who did not know the material
well
Which type of instrument scale is based on the belief that people think dichotomously?
✔✔Semantic differential
Item response theory can be used to... ✔✔detect item bias in the same test given to an African
American and a Latino American
If a student scored 45 on a difficult English test, what can be said about her performance?
✔✔There is not enough information to know how the student performed
If a set of test scores with a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 10 is normally distributed,
what is the median? ✔✔74
In a normal distribution, ______ of scores falls between -1 and +2 standard deviations?
✔✔81.5%
If the mean of an achievement test is 31 and the standard deviation is 3, what is the percentile
rank of a student who scored a 37 on that test? ✔✔97.5%
An individual with a z-score of -1.3 has a stanine score of... ✔✔2
Achievement testing includes:
a. standardized norm-referenced tests
b. teacher-constructed criterion referenced tests
c. standardized high stakes tests
d. All of the above ✔✔All of the above
John, a third grade student, is having trouble in math. The teacher suspects that John has a
learning disability in math. Which of the following achievement tests should be used to
determine whether John has a learning disability in math? ✔✔Key Math Diagnostic Test
Which one of the following is NOT an example of an aptitude test?
a. GRE general test
b. Clerical Test Battery
c. Test of Adult Basic Education
d. Stanford-Binet 5 ✔✔Test of Adult Basic Education
The ______ measures several distinct aspects of vocational ability, and the ______ measures one
homogeneous area of vocational ability. ✔✔Differential Aptitude Test (DAT); Wiesen Test of
Mechanical Aptitude
William Stern's radio intelligence quotient, popularized on early versions of the Stanford-Binet
Intelligence Scales, was calculated... ✔✔by dividing one's mental age by chronological age
Which objective personality test is designed to identify DSM-5 Axis II personality disorders?
✔✔Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator uses four dichotomous scales to measure personality. What
specific aspect of personality does the sensing vs. intuition scale measure? ✔✔How you perceive
the world around you
Which one of the following is NOT true?
a. Rating scales usually evaluate the quantity of an attribute
b. Rating scales are highly subjective because they rely on the rater's perception of the behavior
c. Rating scales are used to assess the presence or absence of an attribute
d. Rating scales often assess a broad range of behaviors ✔✔Rating scales are used to assess the
presence or absence of an attribute
Performance assessments... ✔✔require examinees to perform a task
Based on the risk factors associated with committing suicide, which client is MOST likely to
commit suicide?
a. An 18-year old, African American male with a family history of suicide
b. A 78-year old, widowed Caucasian female who is depressed
c. A 40-year old, Hispanic woman with a diagnosed anxiety disorder and history of alcohol
abuse
d. A 67-year old, divorced Caucasian male who recently lose his job and reports feelings of
hopelessness ✔✔A 67-year old, divorced Caucasian male who recently lost his job and reports
feelings of hopelessness
Requiring minority students to take standardized college admission exams that were designed for
Caucasian, middle-class students constitutes _______ bias. ✔✔ecological
According to the ACA and NBCC codes of ethics, professional counselors... ✔✔use instruments
that provide norms for the specific client population that is being assessed
Test adaptation... ✔✔strives to elicit the same responses from test-takers regardless of the
examinee's cultural or linguistic backgrounds
Which one of the following is NOT an advantage associated with computer-based testing?
a. Greater scoring accuracy
b. Can provide immediate feedback concerning client performance
c. Clients prefer test administration via the computer when responding to sensitive topics
d. Minimizes human contact and involvement in the testing process ✔✔Minimizes human
contact and involvement in the testing process
A test that has the ability to modify the test structure and items to the examinee's ability level is
known as a(n)... ✔✔computer-adaptive test
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