pd week 8 rhuari

CAPA (computer-assistant psychological assessment )

- administration, automated scoring, and printing test results
- design of individual tests based on real time feedback during testing
- interpretation of test results
- writing narrative reports based on test scores
- presentation of test stimuli in engaging formats (virtual reality)

scoring reports (Computer based test interpretation)

- profile summaries,
- incorporate statistical significance tests
- confidence intervals for separate scores
- DO NOT give an explanatory narrative

descriptive reports (Computer based test interpretation)

- descriptive interpretations of scale scores
- save time (most are too detailed, compromising their clarity)

actuarial reports (Computer based test interpretation)

- empirical determination of relationship between test results and the criteria of interest
-\> distinguishes them from clinical reports (based on knowledge)
-\> but actuarial reports are automised as they are plugged into a formula to generate a specific interpretation

- NO biases involved vs clinical judgement

- often combined with clinicians reports
- shrinkage in classification rate \= extreme values in a sample are "shrunk" towards a central value

computer-assisted clinical reports

first, clinicians use their knowledge and expertise to formulate the interpretive/descriptive statements. They pre-determine the decision rules (not automated, rather determined by clinician) , which will then be translated into a computer code

:) -\> all test profiles can be interpreted
:( -\> very dense in information

Workplace situation test (IBM)

- developed to asses how respondents would reacts in a set of 30 work scenes
- associated with interpersonal contact and concerning manufacturing processes
- they are asked to choose between 5 pre-determined responses.

Conflict Resolution Skills Assessment

consist of 9 nine conflict scenes, with various possible outcomes

:) -\> high ecological validity (good measure for real-life outcomes)
-\> test showed social skills are separated from cognitive abilities

:( -\> possibility to choose between alternate repossess halfway is difficult to analyse & higher costs

Interactive video in assessment (benefits & limitations)

:) -\> quick, inexpensive, near perfect reliability. objectivity (biases almost completely eliminated)

:( -\> elimination of experts
-\> lack of test form equivalency (one form of the test being more difficult then another, and therefor coming to not identical results)

VE Grocery Store Test

test users have to navigate a VR-simulated grocery story to search for items testing for executive functions

Virtual reality lateralised Attention Test (VRLAT)

measure of hemispatial neglect - examinee has to travel across a path (participant condition) while de examiner controls the environment
- avoid obstacles
- state which objects they see and the special characteristics of these
- a higher score of right sided objects indicate left-sided hemispsatial neglect and vice versa