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Psychological Assessment

The gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making a psychological evaluation.

Psychological Testing

The process of measuring psychology-related variables to obtain a sample of behavior.

Retrospective Assessment

Drawing conclusions about psychological aspects of a person at some point in time prior to the assessment.

Remote Assessment

Drawing conclusions about a subject who is not in physical proximity to the assessor.

Ecological Momentary Assessment

Evaluation of specific problems and related cognitive and behavioral variables at the very time and place they occur.

Educational Assessment

Evaluation of abilities and skills relevant to success or failure in a school or pre-school context.

Collaborative Assessment

An assessment in which the assessor and assessee work as partners throughout the evaluation process.

Therapeutic Psychological Assessment

An assessment process aimed at encouraging therapeutic self-discovery and new understandings.

Dynamic Assessment

An interactive approach to psychological assessment that involves evaluation, intervention, and further evaluation.

Case History Data

Information about a person’s past that helps understand their current situation.

Role-Play Test

An assessment tool where assessees act as if they were in a particular situation.

Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT)

A type of test that adjusts question difficulty based on the examinee's performance.

Informed Consent

The right of test takers to be informed about the test and its findings.

Validity

The degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure.

Reliability

The consistency of a measuring tool or test across different circumstances.

Norms

Standards used for comparison in evaluating test scores within a population.

Stratified Sampling

A method of sampling from a population that can be partitioned into subpopulations.

Percentiles

An expression of the percentage of people whose score falls below a particular raw score.

Positive Correlation

A relationship where two variables increase or decrease together.

Negative Correlation

A relationship where one variable increases while the other decreases.

Meta Analysis

Statistics method used to combine information across multiple studies.

Kurtosis

The measure of the 'tailedness' or flatness of a distribution.