Chapter 10 Ability Testing Academic Aptitude and Achievement

SAT (Now scholastic aseessment test was scholastic aptitude test)

4 hours. 3 major sections: Critical Reading, Math, Writing

ACT

English, Math, Reading, Science reasoning. (21 is mean)

Graduate and Professional Schools Admissions Test

GRE Miler Analogies Test

No Child Left Behind

Has to do with high stakes testing Fair and equal opportunity to obtain high quality education Increased demans and increase student/school peformance Student anxiety (external factors) often not reflected in scores- may "miss" some students

School Achievement Tests

ITBS ITEDS Iowa Early Learning Inventory Standford Achievement Test Metropolitan Achievement Tests TerraNova Tests

Examples of professional school tests

MCAT (medical), DAT (dental), LSAT (law), GMAT (management)

High Stakes Testing

Pertinent content embedded with state curriculum. Purpose=educational opportunities for students "left behind" A vehicle of change AND a way to monitor Teaching may become mechanical and may accidently ignore individual stuff

Miller Analogies Test

Power test-not speed test...same predictive validity problems as ACT Verbal OR computer based 100 questions (20 are experimental)

What does PSAT stand for?

Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test

Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (ch 8)

SASSI Assessment of Alcohol abuse The SASSI is a self-report screening instrument for substance dependency. Objective decision rules classify individuals as chemically dependent or as not chemically dependent.

Aptitude Tests for Higher Ed

SAT PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) ACT

Two major tests of APTITUDE for higher education try to predict college success

SAT (including PSAT) and ACT

Beck Depression Inventory (ch 8)

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, BDI-1A, BDI-II), created by Aaron T. Beck, is a 21-question multiple-choice self-report inventory, one of the most widely used psychometric tests for measuring the severity of depression. Its development marked a shift among mental health professionals, who had until then, viewed depression from a psychodynamic perspective, instead of it being rooted in the patient's own thoughts.

WAIS

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is an IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents.[1] The original WAIS (Form I) was published in February 1955 by David Wechsler, as a revision of the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale, released in 1939.[2] It is currently in its fourth edition (WAIS-IV) released in 2008 by Pearson, and is the most widely used IQ test, for both adults and older adolescents, in the world.

WISC

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children developed by David Wechsler, is an individually administered intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16. The Fifth Edition (WISC-V; Wechsler, 2014) is the most current version. The WISC-V takes 45-65 minutes to administer and generates a Full Scale IQ (formerly known as an intelligence quotient or IQ score) which represents a child's general intellectual ability. It also provides five primary index scores (i.e., Verbal Comprehension Index, Visual Spatial Index, Fluid Reasoning Index, Working Memory Index, and Processing Speed Index) that represent a child's abilities in more discrete cognitive domains. Five ancillary composite scores can be derived from various combinations of primary or primary and secondary subtests. Five complementary subtests yield three complementary composite scores to measure related cognitive abilities relevant to assessment and identification of specific learning disabilities, particularly dyslexia and dyscalculia. Variation in testing procedures and goals can reduce time of assessment to 15-20 minutes for the assessment of a single primary index, or increase testing time to three or more hours for a complete assessment, including all primary, ancillary, and complementary indices.

Achievement assessment

refers to measuring learning of previous content

Aptitude assessment

reflects one's ability to learn a specific knowledge or skillset

What are the components of the GRE

verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, analytical writing Problem: restriction in range because low scores are typically eliminated and because A's and B's are typically given in grad school- therefore the predictive liability has some problems