Psychological Testing

PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTING
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
TERM DEFINITION
Assessment  A variety of quantitative or qualitative

procedures used to obtain information
about student performance.
 Involves a licensed professional who
uses tests, techniques and strategies to
maximize discovery of client’s full
ability or potentials (Matarazzo, 1990)
 Conceptual, problem-solving process of
gathering dependable, relevant
information about individual, group, or
institution, in order to make informed
decisions (APA, 2000).
Psychological Testing
• Term • Definition
Measurement The process of obtaining a
numerical description of the
degree to which an individual
possesses a characteristic
Used to assign numerals to
objects or constructs according
to rules so that numbers have
quantitative meaning.
Testing A systematic procedure for measuring
a sample of behavior by posing
questions in a uniform manner.
Systematic procedures for observing
behavior & describing it with the aid
of numerical scales or fixed
categories (Cronbach, 1990).
Objective and standardized measure
of a sample of behavior (Anastasi &
Urbina, 2000).
Test An individual instrument where
the focus is on evaluation.
A measurement device or
technique used to quantify
behavior or aid in the
understanding and prediction of
behavior.
Instrument Checklists, scales, and
inventories to provide
information
Evaluation Process of making judgments
about the quality of student
performance using existing data
or outcomes.
Process an individual uses to
judge information from one or
more sources. That process may
focus on test data as well as
observations and other sources.
Psychological Procedures used to gather
Evaluation information about clients which
is then used to facilitate clinical
decisions and provide
information to clients.
TEST VS ASSESSMENT ASSESSMEN
TEST T
Administers Involves the use
tests, focuses of other tools,
solely on integrates data
and
collecting
synthesizes
data results.
Both involve identifying areas of

concern collecting data.
PSYCHOLOGIST VS. CLINICIAN
PSYCHOLOGIS
TS CLINICIANS
Uses tests just to Integrates data and bring

obtain data, focus into focus diverse areas
of knowledge uses
on clerical and
assessment as the
technical aspects of foundation for goal
Testing. setting/treatment
planning
USES OF TESTS ACCORDING TO MURPHY &
DAVIDSHOFER, 1997
1. Clinical : assessment of intelligence and pathology
2. Counseling: assessment of career interests, skills, social
adjustment
3. Neuropsychology: assessment of brain damage
4. School/ Educational: assessment of ability & academic
progress, maturity and readiness for school, handicapped
children
5. Industrial/ Organizational: assessment of managerial
potential, training needs, cognitive and psychomotor ability.
USES OF ASSESSMENT IN GUIDANCE
• Testing as an aid to focusing on

developmental issues
• Testing as an aid to problem solving
• Testing as an aid in decision making
• Testing used in a psycho-educational
manner
POSSIBLE FUNCTIONS OF TESTING PROGRAM
ABRENICA (2006)
1. Classroom
• Group pupils for instruction within class
• Guide the planning of activities fro specific individual students
• Identify students’ special diagnostic study and remedial instruction needs
• Determine reasonable achievement levels for each student and evaluate
discrepancies between test scores and academic performance
• Assign course grades
• Provide data for research purposes
2. Guidance
• Prepare for guidance discussions with parents about children
• Build realistic self pictures on the part of students
• Help students set educational and vocational goals
• Help students with immediate choices
• Improve counselor, teacher, and parent understanding of
problem cases
• Serve as basis for recommendations to other institutions
• Provide data for research purposes
3. Administration
• Forming of and organizing classroom Groups
• Placing new students
• Determine eligibility for special groups
• Evaluate curricula, curiccular emphases, and curricular
experiments
• Help determine which students are to be promoted
• Evaluate teachers
• Evaluate the school as a unit
• Provide data for institutional research
• Provide information for outside agencies

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PSYCHOLOGICAL

Assessment  A variety of quantitative or qualitative

Both involve identifying areas of

Uses tests just to Integrates data and bring

• Testing as an aid to focusing on

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