Ability_Testing.pptVIP

Ability Testing PSY 614 Fall 2007 Instructor: Emily E. Bullock, Ph.D. Outline-topics to cover in this lecture Test Security Issues Defining intelligence, ability, and achievement Standford-Binet (murphy, cohen Satler) Wechler Scales (murphy, cohen Satler) Woodcock-Johnson (mather Jaffe) Group ability testing ASVAB (Murphy) SAT, GRE, ACT (Murphy) MAB (Murphy) Test Security Why keep tests secure? How do we balance giving client feedback about tests and test security? How can you ensure test security? How test security is sometimes compromised? Measuring Ability Assumption: Intelligence exists How do you define intelligence? Other Measures of Ability Defining Intelligence 6 commonly agreed upon components Knowledge-based thinking Apprehension Adaptive purposeful striving Fluid-analytic reasoning Mental Playfulness Idiosyncratic Learning (Sattler, 2001, Assessment of Children) Defining Intelligence Ratings of 1,020 experts on the elements of intelligence Abstract thinking or reasoning (99.3%) Problem-solving ability (97.7%) Capacity to acquire knowledge (96.0%) Memory (80.5%) Adaptation to one’s environment (77.2%) Mental speed (71.7%) Linguistic competence (71%) Mathematical competence (67.9%) General knowledge (62.4%) Creativity (59.6%) Sensory acuity (24.4%) Goal-directedness (24%) Achievement motivation (18.9%) (Sattler, 2001, Assessment of Children) Defining Intelligence Text’s Definition pg 22 “existence of systematic individual differences in the performance of tasks that involve the manipulation, retrieval, evaluation, or processing of information” (Murphy Davidshofer, 2005, p.22). Theories of Intelligence Spearman’s g Thurstone and the 7 group factors of intelligence Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence and CHC theory Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences The Intelligence Quotient IQ = (MA/CA) x 100 Problems with the Method New Method Characteristics of a Good Test of Intelligence Broad Sampling of Tasks Avoidance of being an Information Test Indi