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| Why are formal assessment approaches used? | to determine eligibility for services, provide diagnostic information, assist individuals with reaching career goals, evaluate effectiveness of intervention strategies, recommend course of action.
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| What is an assessment? | any systematic method of obtaining information from tests and other sources, used to draw inferences about people, objects, or programs.
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| What is a test? | an objective and standardized measure of a sample of behavior
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| What is a measurement? | the assignment of numbers to attributes of persons according to rules stated explicitly
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| What is a vocational assessment? | o Involves exploring a person’s strengths, weaknesses, and preferences
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| What can assessment procedures include? | o Interviews
o Standardized tests
o Inventories
o Observations
o Job tryouts
o Simulated tasks
o Medical evaluations
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| What does an initial interview do in assessments? | Generates a social-vocational history
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| What is the focus of an initial interview in assessments? | Determining reason for rehab services
Provide indwith necessary info about role/function of agency
Develop adequate rapport
Initiate diagnostic process
Inform of medical, vocational, or psychological evaluations that must be done.
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| Where is a medical evaluation required in assessments? | All public state rehab agencies when working with a consumer with a physical disability or chronic illness
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| What is a medical evaluation used for in an assessment? | Establish the presence and extent of disability
Provide information on physical functioning
Determine types of activities precluded by disability
Identify any additional medical evaluation necessary
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| What does a medical evaluation provide in an assessment? | Information clarifying consumer’s general health
Information describing of the extent, stability, and prognosis – and treatment
Assessment of present and future implications
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| What does a psychological evaluation do in an assessment? | o Yield information regarding consumers’ intelligence, aptitudes, achievement, personality, interests, and adjustment
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| What does a psychological evaluation help determine in an assessment? | Appropriateness of long-term vocational training
Need for adjustment services
Need to confront consumer regarding unrealistic vocational choices
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| What do vocational evaluation provide reliable and information to? | info about vocationally relevant levels of functioning
potential for behavior change/skill acquisition
most effective learning style
possible jobs without vocational services
education or special training programs
feasible jobs
community supports
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| What is a nominal scale? | classifies, assigns numerals but does not distinguish size. (any categorical variable such as ethnicity or gender)
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| What is an ordinal scale? | indication of ordering, but no indication of distances between objects on scale (placing first, second, third)
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| What is an interval? | equal intervals on scale (temperature)
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| What is a ratio? | possesses a nonarbitrary zero point (weight
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| What are different types of reliability? | test-retest, split-half, parallel forms, cronbach's alpha
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| what is reliability? | measure of consistency
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| What is test retest reliability measure? | measure of consistency over time
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| What is split-half reliability measure? | measure of internal consistency. Same group, different parts of test (odds vs. evens)
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| What does parallel forms reliability measure? | measure of consistency of scores with same group, two alternate forms of test
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| What does Cronbach's Alpha measure? | internal consistency statistic calculated from pairwise correlations
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| What is validity? | Extent to which meaningful and appropriate inferences can be made; does test measure what it is supposed to measure?
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| What are the different types of validity? | face, content, criterion (predictive), construct
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| What does face validity measure? | appraisal of test’s content based on ‘face’ of test (looking at content only)
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| What does content validity measure? | evaluation by subject matter experts of test items’; representative of construct being measured
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| What does criterion validity measure? | comparison of test with a related outcome measure
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| What does construct validity measure? | extent to which the measure actually measures the theoretical construct
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| What is self-referenced interpretation? | when a score is compared with an internal frame of reference (changes in an individual’s performance on a test over time
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| What is criterion reference interpretation? | when a score is compared with an absolute standard
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| What is norm referenced interpretation? | when a score is compared with scores obtained by other individuals
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| Whhat is a raw score? | is performance on a test; meaningless without additional information
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| What is a standard score? | can be yielded as results and be used to make norm-referenced interpretations
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| What is the mean and sd of a Z-score? | M = 0; SD = 1
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| What is the mean and sd of a t-score? | M= 50; SD = 10
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| What is the mean and sd of an IQ score? | M = 100; SD = 15
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| What is the WAIS? | Full-scale intelligent quotient & General ability Index
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| What are teh four indices of the WAIS? | o Verbal Comprehension Index
o Perceptual Reasoning Index
o Working Memory Index
o Processing Speed Index
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| What does the Standford-Binet measure and do? | intelligence test that has nonverbal subtests and generates FSIQ
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| What is the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test-3? | Untimed, easily administered, oral test of intelligence
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| Who is the Peabody Picture Vocabulary test-3 good for? | Good for those with intellectual disabilities
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| What is the Slossen Intelligence test-revised 3? | Easily administered, Individual, Oral test of verbal intelligence
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| Who is the Slossen Intelligence test-revised 3 good for? | Good for those with visual impairments, reading difficulty, and physical disabilities.
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| What are aptitude tests? | assess skills and abilities; predict how successful one will be at learning
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| When was the General aptitude test founded? | 1947
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| What 8 aptitudes are tested? | o General learning ability
o Verbal aptitude
o Numeric aptitude
o Spatial aptitude
o Form perception
o Clerical perception
o Motor coordination
o Finger dexterity
o Manual dexterity
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| What is the mean and SD of the General Aptitude Test? | mean of 100 and Sd of 20
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| What are the three types of scores associated with the general aptitude test? | Cognitive, perceptual, psychomotor scores
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| What are the 10 aptitudes tested in the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery? | o General science
o Work knowledge
o Paragraph comprehension
o Electronics information
o Code speed
o Arithmetic reasoning
o Mathematics knowledge
o Mechanical comprehension
o Auto and shop information
o Numerical operations
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| What is the differential aptitude tests-fifth edition form c used for? | vocational and education counseling guidance?
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| What are the different portions of the differential aptitude tests-fifth edition form c? | o Verbal reasoning
o Numeric reasoning
o Abstract reasoning
o Perceptual speed and accuracy
o Mechanical reasoning
o Space relations
o Spelling
o Language usage
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| What is an achievement test? | what have individuals learned
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| What are the three most common standardized achievement tests? | • WRAT-4
• Peabody Individual Achievement Test-R
• Adult Basic Learning Examination-2
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| What are personality tests? | measure emotional, interpersonal, motivational, and attitudinal characteristics
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| What are the 10 clinical scales of the MMPI? | o Hypochondriasis (Hs)
o Depression (D)
o Conversion Hysteria (Hy)
o Psychopathic deviate (Pd)
o Masculinity-Femininity (MF)
o Paranoia (Pa)
o Psychasthenia (Pt)
o Schizophrenia (Sc)
o Hypomania (Ma)
o Social Introversion (O or Si)
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| What are the four scales of the myers briggs? | o Extroversion (E) vs. Introversion (I)
o Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N)
o Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F)
o Judgment (J) vs. Perception (P)
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| What type of test is the MMPI? | Personality
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| What type of test is the Myers'Briggs? | Personality
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| On-job-evals (OJE | assess functioning in actual work settings where they are involved in activities presumed to be compatible with interests and skills. Time period can range from a single day to a month or longer.
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| Supported Employment | can occur after the persons has assumed the job. Used to predict what a person can do in job with supports in place.
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| Ecological Assessments | occurs in a natural setting, such as actual worksites
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| Situational Assessments | offer a work assessment approach where a consumer’s job performance and work behaviors are systematically observed in a realistic and controlled working environment.
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| What are different types of vocational tests? | • Self-Directed Search
• Strong Interest Inventory
• Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory
• Work Samples Assessment
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