Tests in Educ/Hea;thcare

Informal Assessment Tools

• Considered informal due to their lack of standardization (Leads to a lack of psychometric properties and norms 

• Measures can vary in terms of format and content, the subject, the teacher, and the educational institution 

Stanford Achievement Test

Evaluates achievement from Grade K-12

Helps guide teaching and learning toward high academic standards

On its 10th edition

Good norms and psychometric properties

National Achievement Test (NAT) [PH]

• Scores of students provide a quick glimpse of the current state of education – evaluates achievement from Grade K-12 

• Administered by DepEd to both private and public schools

Tests measuring potential for training/learning

• Typically used by the learning institution’s admissions committee to evaluate an applicant’s potential to cope with the academic demands of the institution 

Tests Measuring Current Abilities for Placement Purposes

When they intend to join formal schooling, a special evaluation needs to be conducted in order to determine what grade level would be a best fit for them—given their current knowledge, skills, and capabilities

Philippine Educational Placement Test

• Developed by DepEd based on K-12 curriculum 

• Administered to homeschooled or out of school youth to evaluate their abilities and appropriate placement

Determining and Understanding Areas of the Brain with Impaired Functioning

• Advanced technologies can aid with identifying parts of the brain that may be injured or damaged, but they cannot fully account for the impaired functioning that is observed 

Neuropsychological Assessment

• The process of using psychological tests within the clinical neuropsychology setting 

•  Looks into the relationship between behavior and brain functioning (cognitive, motor, sensory, emotional)

 Attention, Memory, Learning, Language, and Communication, Spatial Integration, Cognitive Flexibility

Focus areas of neuropsychological assessment

Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery

• A standardized battery of neuropsychological tests designed to  provide information useful in the diagnosis and treatment of brain damage or dysfunction

Mini-Mental  State Examination (MMSE)

a brief quantitative measure of cognitive status in adults

• Estimating the severity of cognitive impairment at a given point in time 

• Following the course of cognitive changes in an individual over time

 Psychological Risk and Protective Factors

• Practitioners should understand how emotions manifest in our stress responses, which can impact our health 

• Practitioners can also look into how Clients/patients cope with the specific emotions and stressors they encounter

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

 Self-report measure of the severity of current symptoms of anxiety and a generalized propensity to be anxious

State Anxiety Scale (S-Anxiety)

• measures subjective feelings of apprehension, tension, nervousness, worry, and arousal of the autonomic nervous system 

Trait Anxiety Scale (T-Anxiety)

•  Evaluates relatively stable aspects of “anxiety proneness,” including general states of calmness, confidence, and security 

Ways of coping scale

• Used to identify the thoughts and actions an individual has used to cope with a specific stressful encounter 

• 66-items with particular coping strategies 

• Test takers are asked to score how applicable or inapplicable the coping strategy is to their specific and current stressful situation