Counselor Preparation Comprehensive. CPC -2024 Assessment and testing

Appraisal - Answer-Process of assessing or estimating attributes Free choice / free response - Answer-Short answer Forced choice - Answer-NCE/CPCE Recognition items Difficulty index - Answer-Indicates percentage of people who answered each item correctly Normative & Ipsative format - Answer-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 - Answer- Achievement - Measure maximum performance or present level of skill Personality - typical performance Q-sort - Answer-Sorting statements to evaluate self-esteem Sprial test vs. cyclical test - Answer-Spiral - Items get progressively harder Cyclical - several sections which are spiral Test battery - Answer-Horizontal test - measures various factors (ex: math & science) during same testing procedure Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Which is more important, validity or reliability? - Answer-Validity - a test must measure what it means to measure Types of validity - Answer-Content - does the test examine the behavior under scrutiny? Construct - test's ability to measure a theoretical construct like intelligence Concurrent - how well the test compares to other instruments that are intended for the same purpose Predictive (empirical) - test's ability to predict future behavior according to criteria Consequential - social implications of using tests * criterion validity - concurrent validity and predictive validity together Incremental vs. synthetic validity - Answer-Incremental - process by which a test is refined and becomes more valid as contradictory items are dropped Synthetic - helper looks for tests that have been shown to predict each job element or component Convergent vs. discriminant validity - Answer-Convergent - correlating test scores with an outsid