COUN 6360 (COUN6360)

1. Question: Which scale of measurement is being used if assigning numbers based on different professional affiliation (e.g., counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists)? 2. Question: Match the standard score with its mean and standard deviation. 3. Question: NCEs range from 1 to 99 along the bell-shaped curve, but as opposed to percentiles, they are in equal units along curve. 4. Question: If a child is in grade 4.3 and receives a grade equivalent of 7.2 on an achievement test,...

COUN 6360 Week 6 Required Readings – Learning R

You have learned some difficult topics and taken at least one quiz. As you learn about psychometrics, you will likely have questions about these concepts. Use this discussion space to post questions and help clarify things for your peers. Your peers and your instructor can provide support and encouragement – and you can offer the same to your colleagues. To Prepare: • Reflect on the concepts from the quiz, textbook, and other resources that you understand • Identify what concepts from t...

You have learned some difficult topics and taken at least one quiz. As you learn about psychometrics, you will likely have questions about these concepts. Use this discussion space to post questions and help clarify things for your peers. Your peers and your instructor can provide support and encouragement – and you can offer the same to your colleagues. To Prepare: • Reflect on the concepts from the quiz, textbook, and other resources that you understand • Identify what concepts from t...

COUN 6360 Week 6 Competency Quiz; Psychometrics (Winter Qtr)

COUN 6360 Week 6 Competency Quiz; Psychometrics (Winter Qtr)

Psychometrics is the measurement of personality characteristics (Neukrug & Fawcett, 2015). The profile that emerges from the assessment can be used by counselors to best assist a client in his or her growth and awareness as well as other professionals such as employers in evaluating a job candidate or other situation to determine the fitness of an individual for a position or a task. To Prepare: • Review the Learning Resources to prepare for this quiz. To Complete: You must submit your fir...

COUN 6360 Week 5 Required Readings – Learning Resources

Q. 1 A test developer creates a new instrument to measure psychotic tendencies. She correlates this instrument with an existing test that measures psychotic tendencies that has been shown to be valid. This type of validity is called: Q. 2 In assessing the reliability of a new test, a sample of 1,000 examinees take the test, and one week later are asked to take the same test again. This is an example of which type of reliability? Q. 3 Concurrent validity is to criterion-related validity as disc...

This week, and over the next three weeks, you will complete quizzes that assess competency. For each quiz, you must get 8 of 10 items correct in order to receive credit. You can repeat each quiz as many times as needed to demonstrate competency. You must complete the first attempt at these quizzes successfully by Day 3 of each week. Repeat attempts must be successfully completed by Day 7 of Week 7. Learning Objectives Students will: • Apply diagnostic decision-making to assessments • Ana...