Unit 5 Assignment: Achievement and Aptitude Assessment Evaluation
Select an existing Achievement or Aptitude Test and discuss the possible sources of error that may be inherent in this instrument. Explain why some sources of error are likely to be larger than others for your selected test. Along with the text, and the two articles listed below, locate an additional two scholarly journal articles related to your selected inventory. (5 total references)
The (2) articles below are accessible through the following Library links. Respond to the corresponding topics in an essay format; summarize the salient validity issues in each article.
Roach, R. (2014). Teaching to the Test. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 31(3), 32. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.libauth.purdueglobal.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=96357911&site=eds-live
Describe how standardized test for college admission has become a controversial issue.
Discuss the issues with the education systems reliance on the No Child Left Behind Act and how it has come under criticism.
Barrett, J. (2011). The Aptitude Test Workbook: Discover Your Potential and Improve Your Career Options with Practice Psychometric Tests (Vol. 2nd ed). London: Kogan Page. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.libauth.purdueglobal.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=354494&site=eds-live
Discuss why it is important to explore a candidates abilities and true potential.
Review the advantages of a client/student learning about their strengths and weaknesses can be helpful in their future goals
Note: Find a test measuring a construct for Achievement or Aptitude assessment; do not purchase a review of any test. You will use the websites to look up the name and brief description of a test and then conduct further research on your own about this test.
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Be a minimum of seven pages (not including Title Page and Reference List).
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Read Chapter 6 (pp. 161-181), Chapter 7 (pp. 182-209), and Chapter 8 (pp. 210-236), in your text, Foundations of Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach.
The reading for unit 5 involves what may arguably be the most important issues in validity. Several chapters (6, 7 & 8) describe the significant role of validity including terms such as content, criterion relationships, predictive, and construct. Validity essentially addresses the question Does this test in fact measure what we think it measures? There are many different ways that test evaluators attempt to establish the validity of an assessment instrument and to address whether an instrument is validly interpreted. Chapter 8 describes the test’s relation to constructs with theoretical and hypothetical interpretation. This chapter examines the value of observing and measuring behaviors to show evidence of construct validity
Validity builds on the ideas from Unit 4. A test must be reliable to be valid. Establishing that tests perform in the ways that you think they do contributes to the validity of their use. This is an important, perhaps the most important, issue in the measurement of psychological variables.
