Terminology - 3 Psychological Assessment

• logical result or deduction

  May diminish as the culture or times change

• Inferences

• Validity

• Validation Studies

• Face Validity

• the process of gathering and evaluating evidence about validity

• Validity

• Face Validity

• Validation

• Validation Studies

• yield insights regarding a particular population of testtakers as compared to the norming sample described in a test manual

• Face Validity

• Validation

• Validation Studies

• Inferences

• a test appears to measure to the person being tested than to what the test actually measures

• Face Validity

• Validation

• Validation Studies

• Inferences

• describes a judgement of how adequately a test samples behavior representative of the universe of behavior that the test was designed to sample

• When the proportion of the material covered by the test approximates

• Test Blueprint

• Face Validity

• Content Validity

• Validation Studies

• a plan regarding the types of information to be covered by the items, the no. of items tapping each area of coverage, the organization of the items, and so forth

• Content Validity

• Test Blueprint

• Validity

• Inferences

• a judgement of how adequately a test score can be used to infer an individual’s most probable standing on some measure of interestꟷthe measure of interest being criterion

• Criterion Contamination

• Criterion

• Test Blueprint

• Criterion-Related Validity

• standard on which a judgement or decision may be made

• Characteristics: relevant, valid, uncontaminated

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Criterion Contamination

• Criterion

• Content Validity

• occurs when the criterion measure includes aspects of performance that are not part of the job or when the measure is affected by “construct-irrelevant ” (Messick, 1989) factors that are not part of the criterion construct

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Criterion Contamination

• Criterion

• Content Validity

• If the test scores obtained at about the same time as the criterion measures are obtained

• Extent to which test scores may be used to estimate an individual’s present standing on a criterion

• Economically efficient

• Concurrent Validity

• Predictive Validity

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Content Validity