Foundations of Assessment Quiz

A type of test based on defining specific skills such as a driver's license test.

• norm referenced assessment

• standardized assessment

• plateau assessment

• criterion referenced assessment

The dispersion of score around the mean score

• variance

• reliability

• validity

• complexity

Useful for interpretation, transfer raw scores into sets of scores with the same mean and standard deviation

• Q score

• standard score

• U score stanine

• age equiivalency score

Formal tests are really an unatural way to assess real communication. They can be useful but also distort what they are trying to examine

• True

• False

If a formal test has 95% sensitivity and 80% specificity, this means

• the test is invalid

• test is better at identifying people without disorders

• test is better at identifying people with disorders

• the test is really specific

Changes to a test's standardized administration protocol

• Accommodation

• Modification

Takes into account a theory to measure what the test is trying to measure

• rater reliability

• test reliability

• construct validity

• face validity

Measures what a client can and cannot do in a more realistic and natural environment

• authentic assessment

• criterion assessment

• dynamic assessment

• norm-referenced assessment

Which type of assessment compares an individual's performance to a group average?

• authentic assessment

• criterion-referenced assessment

• norm-referenced assessment

• dynamic assessment

What term describes the consistency of a test in measuring what it is intended to measure?

• validity

• reliability

• variance

• complexity