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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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-6360-15-Assessment in Counseling-2021-Fall-QTR-Term-wks-1-thru-10 COUN 6360 Week 7 Quiz 1. If you have the raw scores of two individuals on a norm-referenced test, which of the following is important in terms of making meaning of those scores? 2. On a normally distributed curve, raw scores may become meaningful if you know the standard deviation and mean of the group. 3. Which statement is usually NOT true about all norm-referenced standardized achievement tests? 4. NCEs range from 1 t...

COUN-6360D-5/COUN-6360-5/COUN-6324S-5-Assessment in Counseling-2021-Winter-QTR-Term-wks-1-thru-10 COUN 6360 Week 5 Quiz 1. "If you are interested in examining whether or not the GREs can accurately tell how students perform in graduate school, you would most likely want to investigate the validity of the test." 2. Which of the following is NOT a step in determining the content validity of an instrument? 3. The Carl Perkins Act (PL 98-524) asserted: 4. Which of the following is NOT a type ...

COUN 6360 Week 5 Quiz 1. Which of the following is an example of negative correlation? 2. Probably, the most basic form of validity is content validity. 3. "A newly developed instrument for screening depression suggests that an individual is not depressed; however, later information reveals that in fact he is depressed. This problem can be attributed to:" 4. One problem with parallel forms reliability is that individuals may look up questions between the time they take the two tests. 5. T...