assessment - correct answer ✔✔the process of collecting valid and reliable information and
then integrating and interpreting it to make a clinical judgement or decision about something
diagnosis, path to treatment or referral to other professionals - correct answer ✔✔the outcome
of an assessment
thorough, valid, reliable, tailored to the individual client and uses a variety of assessment
modalities - correct answer ✔✔Five principles of a meaningful assessment: A good assessment
is
norm-referenced tests, criterion referenced tests, authentic/informed tasks and trial therapy -
correct answer ✔✔What are four things that a dynamic assessment includes:
Manuel - correct answer ✔✔what is the most important part of a standardized test
1. explains administration procedures
2. qualifications of the test administer
3. Scoring instructions
4. Interpretation guidance (chronological age, basal/ceiling scores, raw scores, SD, CI, standard
score conversions, age/grade equivalence) - correct answer ✔✔The manual provides what kind
of information
diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔It is sometimes the result of an evaluation; it is dynamic and
ever-changing as a client changes; SLP-A cannot come up with this
Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔It is an on-going process that precedes the diagnosis; it is the
first step in intervention planning; assists in determining the severity of a problem
, Assessment - correct answer ✔✔another name for an evaluation
population sampling - correct answer ✔✔This includes 2 types of sampling known as random
sampling and cluster sampling
random sampling - correct answer ✔✔a method of poll selection that gives each person in a
group the same chance of being selected
cluster sampling - correct answer ✔✔A probability sampling technique in which clusters of
participants within the population of interest are selected at random, followed by data
collection from all individuals in each cluster. (all third graders at lusher)
normative sample - correct answer ✔✔are the populations to which a test was given and their
scores/ information was used to establish the "normative data" for a given test/task.
Basis for comparing your client with his/her peers
Age, geographic residence, socioeconomic status, race and other factors (hearing status) -
correct answer ✔✔For psychological tests, normative data should include
Norm referenced test - correct answer ✔✔The client must be a representative of the
population of this test; it includes a normative group; data is analyzed to determine the mean,
standard deviation; it is a standardized test
Formal or Standardized test - correct answer ✔✔Another name for a norm referenced test
1. used to compare to a group
2. needed for placement