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| Tests designed to measure knowledge or skills especially as developed through school or job experience. |
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| The Frenchman who originated the first viable measure of general menal ability, the Binet-Simon scale, which led to the Stanford-Binet; the term "Binet" is also used to designate the tests themselves. |
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| An early American pioneer in development of test theory and methods; often called the father of mental testing. |
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| The traditional theory about the construction and reliability of tests, incorporating true score theory. |
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| Computer-Adaptive Testing (CAT) |
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| A method of testing in which items presented to an examinee are determined by the examinee's responses to earlier items. |
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| Criterion-Referenced Interpretation |
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| Interpreting test performance in relation to some well-defined external criterion rather than in relation to norms; contrasted with norm-referenced interpretation. |
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| A general disposition to view human behavior in terms of differences between people rather than in terms of general laws that apply to everyone. |
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| Englishman who pioneered mental testing, motivated development of several early statistical techniques and introduced concepts of Darwinian evolution into psychology. |
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| Any test suitable for adiministration to large groups tested all at once. |
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| Any psychological test designed to be administered to one individual at a time. |
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| A method of test construction using item characteristic curves. |
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| The best a person can do when under no severe time constraint; the term is often used in connection with power tests. |
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| Tests dealing primarily with intelligence and related abilities. |
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| Reporting of test performance in ordinary words rather than in numerical scores. |
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| Tests designed to measure brain and other nervous system functions. |
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| Norm-Referenced Interpretation |
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| Interpretation of test scores in relation to how groups of people have actually performed on the test; contrasted with criterion-referenced interpretation |
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| Numerical summaries of how people in a standardization program have scored on a test. |
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| Objective Personality Test |
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| A test of personality that can be scored in a simple, clerical-like manner (like counting responses to multiple choice items) |
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| Tests in which items are presented in written form and responses recorded in some written form, especially by marking an answer sheet; usually contrasted with a performance test |
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| A test requiring persons to perform some action, especially an action that simulates a real life situation; usually contrasted with a paper and pencil test |
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| A test calling for maximum performance, usually with little or no time constraint |
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| A method of testing in which the test stimuli are relatively ambiguous and there is substantial freedom in how the person responds |
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| The consistency or dependability of test performance across occasions, scorers, and specific content |
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| A machine for converting answers marked on an answer sheet into electrical or electronic form |
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| English originator of the theory of "g," general intelligence; also developer of earliest forms of factor analysis |
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| A test with relatively easy material that must be completed as rapidly as possible |
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| Uniform conditions for administering and scoring a test |
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| Performance that is typical or normal for an individual; usually contrasted with maximum performance |
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| An indication of the extent to which a test measures what it is intended to measure |
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| Vocational Interest Measures |
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| Tests that relate a person's preferences, interests, and dispositions to possible careers or jobs |
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| Oscar Krisen Buros, the institute, series of published test reviews |
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| Educational Testing Service |
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| A set of test materials, usually including the test booklet or other test materials, directions for administering and scoring, and a manual with technical information, designed for reviewing the test. |
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| Mental Measurements Yearbook, collections of test reviews published periodically, first by O. K. Buros, now by the Buros Institute |
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| A comprehensive list of tests published by the Test Corporation of America |
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| Tests In Print, a series of publications giving a comprehensive list of tests, published by the Buros Institute |
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| A collection of test reviews published by the Test Corporation of America |
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| A type of norm in which a person's score is referenced to scores typical for other persons at various age levels |
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| High-sounding descriptions that are true of nearly everyone, although presented in such a way as to sound like they are unique to a particular individual |
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| The statistics that describe the middle or typical scores in a distribution; the usual measures are mean, median, and mode |
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| A person's age, usually given in years and months |
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| A psychological trait or variable |
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| A group obtained because it is conveniently available rather than being drawn according to a rational sampling plan |
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| Interpreting test performance in relation to some well-defined external criterion rather than in relation to norms; contrasted with norm-referenced interpretation |
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| The branch of statistics devoted to describing characteristics of raw data |
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| A test norm based on level of development within the trait or characteristic being measured |
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| Norms for IQs based on standard scores, mean is 100, SD is 15 |
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| A distribution of raw scores, usually resented in grouped intervals arranged from high to low |
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| A graphic display of a frequency distribution with bars, usually erected vertically, corresponding to frequency of cases at a score or score interval |
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| A graphic display of a frequency distribution with points corresponding to frequency of cases at a score or score interval and points connected by lines |
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| A type of test norm expressing a person's performance in comparison with the performance of students in various grades in school |
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| The branch of statistics dealing with drawing inferences about total populations based on analysis of data in samples |
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| Norms based on the average performance of entire institutions rather than on individual persons |
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| The distance from the 25th to 75th percentiles in a distribution; one of the measures of variability |
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| A scale that orders data points in equal intervals but lacking a true zero point |
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| The peakedness or flatness of a bell curve |
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| The transformation of raw scores from an original scale into a new scale that preserves the characteristics of the original scale except for their numerical values |
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| A norm based on a local group of individuals; usually contrasted with a national norm |
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| The average, one of the measures of central tendency |
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| The middle score when scores are arranged in numerical order; one of the measures of central tendency |
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| The typical score on a test for persons of a given age; a type of test norm utilizing these typical scores |
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| The most frequently occurring score in a distribution of scores, one of the measures of central tendency |
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| Reporting of test performance in ordinary words rather than in numerical scores |
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| A norm based on a group intended to be representative of the entire nation |
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| A primitive type of scale that simply places objects in separate categories, with no implications of quantitative differences |
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| A transformation of raw scores that changes the distances between scale values from the original to a new scale |
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| Any group whose performance on a test is used as a basis for interpreting the scores of other individuals |
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| A density curve that is symmetrical and unimodal with asymptotic tails; often called the bell curve |
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| A type of test norm that is equivalent to percentile norms at the 1st 50th and 99th percentiles, but has equal intervals throughout the scale |
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| Normalized Standard Score |
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| Standard scores derived by converting a non-normal distribution into a normal distribution by way of nonlinear transformation of scores |
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| Any score interpreted in the framework of a set of norms |
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| Interpretation of test scores in relation to how groups of people have actually performed on the test; contrasted with criterion-referenced interpretation |
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| A scale that places objects in order without implying equal distances between the points along the scale |
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| Expressing test performance as the percentage of items answered correctly or in a certain direction out of the total number of test items |
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| A point on a scale below which a specified percent of the cases falls |
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| The percentage of cases in the norm group falling below a given raw score |
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| The distance from the lowest to the highest score in a set of data |
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| Mental Age divided by Chronological Age multiplied by 100, not used too often today |
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| A type of scale that classifies then orders objects along a scale with equal intervals and a true zero point |
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| The original results of scoring a test |
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| Usually refers to a type of standard score used to link various levels of a multilevel test |
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| Asymmetry in a distribution; in skewness to the left, or negative skewness, the scores pile up toward the high end of the distribution, resulting in a long tail to the left; in skewness to the right, or positive skewness, scores pile up toward the low end of the distribution resulting in a long tail to the right |
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| The square root of the sum of the deviates about the mean (squared), divided by N; the most common measure of variability |
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| A type of norm in which raw scores are converted to a scale with a new mean and standard deviation, both usually selected to be nice numbers |
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| May refer to having fixed directions for a test or to the process of developing norms for a test |
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| A standard score system with a mean of 5 and standard deviation of approximately 2, designed to contain the entire distribution in the range of 1-9, with equal intervals except at the tails of the distribution |
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| Development of separate norms for each of several subgroups, e.g. different racial/ethnic/gender groups, especially in an effort to equalize selection ratios |
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| The score derived from application of Item Response Theory to test performance |
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| A point on a scale that represents total absence of quantity; contrasted with an arbitrary zero point |
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| A standard score system where the mean is 50 and the standard deviation is 10 |
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| Norms based on all cases that completed a test, at least within some specified period of time |
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| The degree of scatter or difference among scores in a data set |
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| A construct, or dimension, along which objects vary |
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| The square of the Standard Deviation; one of the measures of variability |
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| The score resulting from subtracting the mean form the raw score, then dividing by the standard deviation, thus z=(x-m)/SD; sometimes called the normal deviate score; mean of 0, SD of 1 |
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| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
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| Type of individually administered mental ability test |
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| Type of individually administered mental ability test |
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| Otis-Lennon School Ability Test |
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| Type of group administered mental ability test |
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| Type of group administered mental ability test |
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| Stanford Achievement Test |
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| Type of battery achievement test |
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| A series of achievement tests such as reading, math, language, science, and social studies |
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| Metropolitan Achievement Test |
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| Type of battery achievement test |
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| Iowa Test of Basic Skills |
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| Type of battery achievement test |
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| Single Subject Achievement Test |
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| Covers only one area; ex. GRE Subject-Psychology |
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| Certification and Licensing Tests |
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| Achievement tests that are important for specific vocational fields |
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| Government Sponsored Achievement Tests |
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| State wide achievement tests that may be required for graduation |
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| Individually Administered Achievement Tests |
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| Usually done to pinpoint specific learning disabilities |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
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| Type of objective personality test |
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| Beck Depression Inventory |
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| Type of objective personality test |
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| Type of objective personality test |
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| Type of projective personality test |
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| Type of projective personality test |
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| Type of projective personality test |
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| Thematic Appreciation Test |
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| Type of projective personality test |
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| Strong Interest Inventory |
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| Type of vocational (interest and attitude) test |
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| Type of vocational (interest and attitude) test |
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| Measures feelings, thoughts, personal stance toward a variety of topics |
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| Help identify/manage a problem, measure efficacy of therapy |
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| Mainly group administered, used by schools, determine levels of student learning, predict success in academics |
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| Personnel and Employment Use of Tests |
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| Used for business and military employment selection |
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| Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery |
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| Type of Personnel/Employment test |
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| Tests used as the dependent variable |
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| IV (Independent Variable) |
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| The variable that the experimenter changes, controls, or manipulates |
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| Th variable that the experimenter measures to see the effect of the IV |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
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| Describes psychiatric conditions |
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| Where can information be found about testing? |
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| Comprehensive Lists of Tests, Systematic Reviews of Published Tests, Electronic Listings, Special Purpose Collections, Books about Single Tests, Textbooks on Testing, Professional Journals, Publishers Catalogs, Other Users of Tests |
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| Comprehensive Lists of Tests |
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| Provides basic information on tests but does not evaluate; ex. TIP, Tests, Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures |
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| Systematic Review of Published Tests |
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| Provides opinionated reviews of published tests with an expanded description; ex. Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY), Test Critiques |
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| Educational Testing Service online, Buros Reviews online, Health and Psychological Instruments (HaPI) online |
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| Special Purpose Collections |
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| Provides information about tests within specific topics both published and unpublished |
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| Entire books devoted to a test, more common among widely used tests |
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| Teach fundamental concepts of testing |
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| Most focus on technical characteristics of tests |
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| Advertisements that are sometimes misleading, usually gives details about tests |
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| Colleagues that provide details about tests that aren't covered in other sources |
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Z-score;
x=raw score
xbar=mean of how all people do on the test from a norm group
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| Some score patterns have 2 or more central clusters, rather than one |
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| More positive, higher peak |
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| More negative, lower peak |
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