Defend the selection of one of three previously reviewed tests based on the synthesis of prior research and the application of ethical principles and multicultural assessment practices.
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In this assessment, you will select one of the three tests you reviewed in the previous assessments and defend your selection based on a synthesis of your previous research and the application of ethical guidelines and multicultural assessment practices.
Preparation
Download the Assessment 4 Template: Final Analysis of Selected Test [DOCX] and use it as the basis of your assessment. The template contains instructions to guide you through each element of the assessment.
This assessment is a culmination of the previous assessments you have completed during this course and the application of APA ethical principles and multicultural assessment practices. In this assessment, you will select one of the three tests you have reviewed in previous assessments and defend your selection based on the synthesis of your previous research. In addition, you will apply APA ethical and multicultural assessment practices to your selected test and propose steps to adhere to these practices in one's specialization or a related profession.
Instructions
- Select one of the three tests you reviewed for the previous assessments. Defend your decision to select this test over the other two tests based on a synthesis of all the data and information you gathered on your selected test throughout the course and identify highlights, both positive and negative, both advantages and disadvantages, according to all of the elements researched.
- Locate research evidence of fairness and test bias for your selected test. If the research or reviews do not address fairness or test bias in any way, then you will need to cite the references you reviewed and note that they were lacking in addressing fairness or bias, drawing appropriate conclusions for when a test is lacking such evidence.
- Note: The articles you need to complete this assessment should be available inside the library collection. In future courses, you may use the Capella library's Interlibrary Loan service to obtain articles outside of the collection, but you should not have to use the service for this course. In the event that you cannot find articles covering a newer test edition, please refer to List of Tests by Type [DOCX]. Note which tests have been designated as acceptable for searching prior test editions.
- Identify multicultural assessment practices and guidelines that should be followed when administering, scoring, and interpreting your selected test. You may use the following source or other articles on multicultural assessment practices you have located through your research.
- Council of National Psychological Associations for the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Interests. (2016). Testing and assessment with persons and communities of color [PDF]. American Psychological Association.
- Apply APA ethical principles on assessment practices (9.01 through 9.11) to your selected test. For each ethical principle, explain how you would follow each ethical principle if you were using your selected test in your specialization or a related profession.
Note: Be sure to use the Assessment 4 Template: Final Analysis of Selected Test [DOCX].
Requirements
- Template: Use the Assessment 4 Template: Final Analysis of Selected Test [DOCX] to complete the assessment.
- References: A minimum of nine references is required for this assessment. These may include journal articles, literature reviews, MMY reviews, and publisher websites. At least three of the nine references must be from peer-reviewed journals. It is likely and appropriate that many of these references and citations were included in one or more of your previous assessments. Alternatively, you may want to supplement your paper with current, peer-viewed journal articles you located after completing an earlier assessment. Those inclusions would also be acceptable.
- Length of paper: A minimum of nine double-spaced pages of content, not including the title page or references (an abstract is not required).
- Font and font-size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
- APA format: Current APA format and style is required throughout. Refer to Academic Writer for guidance on APA style and format.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 2: Analyze key psychometric properties related to tests and measurement, with an emphasis on reliability and validity.
- Review the evidence for reliability of a selected test and support the analysis by citing at least two peer-reviewed journal articles.
- Review the evidence for validity for a selected test and support the analysis by citing at least two peer-reviewed journal articles.
- Competency 3: Evaluate the properties, techniques, and applications used in psychological evaluation.
- Describe how a selected test is related to one's specialization or a related profession.
- Define the purpose of a test and the content, skills, and/or constructs assessed for a selected test and evaluate based on one's area of specialization or a related profession.
- Describe the normative sample and procedures and evaluate the intended population of a selected test based on the anticipated populations served by one’s specialization or related profession.
- Analyze a selected test's materials, costs, and administration times and evaluate their use in one's anticipated work setting or a related profession.
- Competency 4: Evaluate the legal, ethical, and professional issues related to test usage.
- Analyze the training required to administer, score, and interpret a selected test and evaluate based on one's anticipated assessment training or the training of a related profession.
- Competency 5: Analyze the impact technology has had on the techniques and applications used in psychological testing.
- Analyze a selected test's administration, scoring, and interpretation technology and evaluate their use in one's anticipated work setting or a related profession
- Competency 6: Integrate fairness in testing with ethical and legal considerations and sensitivity.
- Apply APA ethical principles 9.01-9.11 to a selected test and evaluate how one would follow these principles when using the test in one's specialization or a related profession.
- Evaluate a selected test's fairness and evidence of bias of diverse subgroups and propose steps to adhere to multicultural assessment practices in one's specialization or a related profession.
- Competency 7: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological profession.
- Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations for members of an identified field of study, using APA style and formatting.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
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Criterion 1
Describe how a selected test is related to one's specialization or a related professionDistinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test over other tests measuring similar constructs in one's specialization or a related profession.
Proficient
Describes how a selected test is related to one's specialization or a related profession.
Basic
Identifies a test that is used in one's specialization or a related profession but does not provide a rationale for its use.
Non Performance
Does describe how a selected test is related to one's specialization or a related profession.
Criterion 2
Define the purpose of a test and the content, skills, and/or constructs assessed for a selected test and evaluate based on one's area of specialization or a related profession.
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test in one's specialization or a related profession over other tests measuring similar constructs based on test purpose and the content, skills, and/or constructs assessed.
Proficient
Evaluates the purpose of a test and the contest, skills, and/or constructs/assessed.
Basic
Evaluates only one of the following: the purpose of the test or the content, skills, and/or constructs assessed.
Non Performance
Does not define the purpose of a and the content, skills, and/or constructs assessed.
Criterion 3
Describe the normative sample and procedures and evaluate the intended population of a selected test based on the anticipated populations served by one’s specialization or related profession
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test in one's specialization or a related profession over other tests based on the normative sample and procedures and the intended population.
Proficient
Describes the normative sample and procedures and evaluates the intended population of a test based on the anticipated population served by one's specialization or a related profession.
Basic
Describes only one of the following: the normative sample and procedures of a test or its intended population.
Non Performance
Does not describe the normative sample and procedures and does not evaluate the intended population of a selected test based on the anticipated populations served by one's specialization or a related profession.
Criterion 4
Analyze the training required to administer, score, and interpret a selected test and evaluate based on one's anticipated assessment training or the training of a related profession
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test over other tests based on the appropriate knowledge, skills, and training and evaluates based on one's anticipated training or the training of a related profession.
Proficient
Analyzes the level of appropriate knowledge, skills, and training for a selected test and evaluates based on one's anticipated training or the training of a related profession.
Basic
Describes but does not analyze the level of appropriate knowledge, skills, and training for a selected test.
Non Performance
Does not describe the training required to administer, score, and interpret a selected test.
Criterion 5
Review the evidence for reliability of a selected test and support the analysis by citing at least two peer-reviewed journal articles.
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test over other tests in one's specialization or a related profession based on test reliability
Proficient
Evaluates the technical quality of a test through research on a selected test's reliability.
Basic
Analyzes but does not evaluate the technical quality of a test through research on a selected test's reliability
Non Performance
Does not analyze the technical quality of a test through research on a selected test's reliability.
Criterion 6
Review the evidence for validity for a selected test and support the analysis by citing at least two peer-reviewed journal articles.
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test over other tests in one's specialization or a related profession based on test validity.
Proficient
Evaluates the technical quality of a test through research on a selected test's validity.
Basic
Analyzes but does not evaluate the technical quality of a test through research on a selected test's validity.
Non Performance
Does not analyze the technical quality of a test through research on a selected test's validity.
Criterion 7
Analyze a selected test's materials, costs, and administration times and evaluate their use in one's anticipated work setting or a related profession.
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test over other tests in one's specialization or a related profession based on the materials, costs, and administration time.
Proficient
Analyzes a selected test's materials, costs, and administration times and evaluates their use in one's specialization or a related profession.
Basic
Analyzes only one of the following: a selected test's materials, costs, or administration times.
Non Performance
Does not evaluate a selected test's materials, costs, and administration times.
Criterion 8
Analyze a selected test's administration, scoring, and interpretation technology and evaluate their use in one's anticipated work setting or a related profession
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test over other tests in one's specialization or a related profession based on test administration, scoring, and interpretation technology.
Proficient
Analyzes a selected test's administration, scoring, and interpretation technology and evaluates their use in one's specialization or a related profession.
Basic
Describes a selected test's administration, scoring, and interpretation technology.
Non Performance
Does not analyze a selected test's administration, scoring, and interpretation technology.
Criterion 9
Apply APA ethical principles 9.01-9.11 to a selected test and evaluate how one would follow these principles when using the test in one's specialization or a related profession.
Distinguished
Synthesizes research to defend one's selection and use of a test over other tests and evaluates based on the extent APA ethical principles 9.0-9.11 can be followed in one's specialization or a related profession.
Proficient
Applies APA ethical principles 9.01-9.11 to a selected test and evaluates how one would follow these principles when using the test in one's specialization or a related profession.
Basic
Applies APA ethical principles 9.01-9.11 to a selected test but does not give specific examples of how one would follow these principles when using the test in one's specialization or a related profession.
Non Performance
Does not apply APA ethical principles 9.01-9.11 to a selected test or evaluate how one would follow these principles when using the test in one's specialization or a related profession.
Criterion 10
Evaluate a selected test's fairness and evidence of bias of diverse subgroups and propose steps to adhere to multicultural assessment practices in one's specialization or a related profession.
Distinguished
Evaluates a selected test's fairness and evidence of bias of diverse subgroups and propose steps to adhere to multicultural assessment practices in one's specialization or a related profession.
Proficient
Evaluates a selected test's fairness and evidence of bias of diverse subgroups and propose steps to adhere to multicultural assessment practices.
Basic
Evaluates the evidence on a selected test's fairness and evidence of bias of diverse group of test takers but does not propose steps to adhere to multicultural assessment practices.
Non Performance
Does not analyze the evidence on a selected test's fairness and evidence of bias of diverse group of test takers.
Criterion 11
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations for members of an identified field of study, using APA style and formatting.
Distinguished
Communicates in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations for members of an identified field of study, using APA style and formatting.
Proficient
Communicates in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations for members of an identified field of study, using APA style and formatting.
Basic
Communicates in a manner that is partly scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations for members of an identified field of study, but inconsistently employs APA style and formatting.
Non Performance
Fails to communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations for members of an identified field of study, and/or does not employ APA style and formatting.