INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND ASSUMPTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

Overall gathering of information about a person. To understand the behavior, thoughts, emotions and functioning. Included here are interviews, observation, case history, behavioral checklists, and psychological test,

Psychological Testing

Part of the assessment, giving standardized test with set of procedures,scoring and interpretation

3 Basic Concepts

Measurements, Tests, Psychological Test

Measurement

turning characteristics into numbers (example: rating someone’s anxiety 0-10 scale)

Tests

a tool or method use to measure a behavior (example: math test is used to measure a problem solving skills)

Psychological Test

a set of items to measure human traits based related to behavior (example: IQ TEST, PERSONALITY TEST)

5 PROCESS OF TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT

referral, preparation of tool, formal assessment, writing a psychological report and feedback session

referral and give example

when a someone (prof, counselors, doctors or parents) asks the psychologists to evaluate a client or person because of a specific concern.

preparation of tools and example

when a psychologists prepare a tools to use for the session (interviews, tests, questionnaires and observation) based on the referral questions.

formal assessment and example

writing psychological report

feedback session

2 approaches in assessment

collaborative psychological assessment and dynamic assessment

collaborative psychological assessment

dynamic assessment and 3 models

3 assessment models

test oriented model, domain oriented model and hypothesis oriented model

test oriented model

domain oriented model

hypothesis oriented model

7 tools of psychological assessment

test, interview, portfolio, case history data, behavioral observation, roleplay test and computer as tools.

CAPA

Computer assissted psychological assessment

test

interview

portfolio

case history data

behavioral observation

role play test

computer as tools

who are the parties?

test takers, test users, test developers, society at large

level a, b and c

teachers and counselors, psychometrician, psychologists