CPCE - Assessment and testing
(2022/2023) Graded A+
Appraisal ✔✔Process of assessing or estimating attributes
Free choice / free response ✔✔Short answer
Forced choice ✔✔NCE/CPCE
Recognition items
Difficulty index ✔✔Indicates percentage of people who answered each item correctly
Normative & Ipsative format ✔✔Normative - person's score evaluated by comparing it to others
who took same test
Ipsative - measures compare traits within same person
, Achievement (attainment) tests vs. personality (interest) inventory ✔✔Achievement - Measure
maximum performance or present level of skill
Personality - typical performance
Q-sort ✔✔Sorting statements to evaluate self-esteem
Sprial test vs. cyclical test ✔✔Spiral - Items get progressively harder
Cyclical - several sections which are spiral
Test battery ✔✔Horizontal test - measures various factors (ex: math & science) during same
testing procedure
Which is more important, validity or reliability? ✔✔Validity - a test must measure what it means
to measure
Types of validity ✔✔Content - does the test examine the behavior under scrutiny?
(2022/2023) Graded A+
Appraisal ✔✔Process of assessing or estimating attributes
Free choice / free response ✔✔Short answer
Forced choice ✔✔NCE/CPCE
Recognition items
Difficulty index ✔✔Indicates percentage of people who answered each item correctly
Normative & Ipsative format ✔✔Normative - person's score evaluated by comparing it to others
who took same test
Ipsative - measures compare traits within same person
, Achievement (attainment) tests vs. personality (interest) inventory ✔✔Achievement - Measure
maximum performance or present level of skill
Personality - typical performance
Q-sort ✔✔Sorting statements to evaluate self-esteem
Sprial test vs. cyclical test ✔✔Spiral - Items get progressively harder
Cyclical - several sections which are spiral
Test battery ✔✔Horizontal test - measures various factors (ex: math & science) during same
testing procedure
Which is more important, validity or reliability? ✔✔Validity - a test must measure what it means
to measure
Types of validity ✔✔Content - does the test examine the behavior under scrutiny?
