The Essentials of Testing and Assessment Chapter 10 Review

Ability assessments and Aptitude tests are used to measure the same skill; one conveys how a person functions, the other illustrates the level of intelligence that a person has.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Maybe

• Usually

Multiple Aptitude Test

• Does not measure abilities and cannot be used to predict how an individual might perform in many different types of jobs

• measures specific traits at one time and are used to judge how an individual will perform on one type of job

• measures several abilities at one time and are used to predict how an individual might perform in many different types of jobs

• measures several attitudes at one time and are used to predict how an individual might perform in many different types of jobs

Special Aptitude Tests

• Assesses aspirations along skill clusters

• Assesses plans along with educational clusters

• Assesses goals along occupational clusters

• Assesses interest along career clusters

Designed to predict successes in a vocational area

• Scholastic Aptitude Test

  (SAT)

• Clerical Aptitude test

• Artistic Aptitude Test

• ASVAB

This is a self-administered, scored, and interpreted test that was created by Holland; uses his personality types

• Self Directed Search

• Strong General Occupational Themes

• Factory Analysis

• Personality Inventory

Multiple Aptitude Testing

• Are used in place of interest inventories

• Does not incorporate Factory Analysis to help develop differences between subsets

• Least commonly used for Career Counseling

• Measures ability and predicts success in several fields

Interest Inventories

• Are used to determine likes and Dislikes

• Are good at predicting job satisfaction

• Assess Personality orientation towards the 

  Professional world of work

  
  

• All of the answer choices apply apply