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Definition: Placing measurement data in a context, or making sense of test scores. Description. Interpretation of test scores depends upon all the steps that came before it.
- Approaches to Assessment
- Preparing and Delivering A Test Interpretation
- Research on Test Interpretation Outcomes
- Conclusion
Clinical Interview
The assessment technique most widely used by counseling psychologists is the clinical interview. However, psychometric assessment procedures have numerous advantages over the interview. For example, therapists gain experience one client at a time, but tests provide information based on large numbers of people in the form of norm groups. Given the fallibility of human memory, therapists are likely to forget some cases and to give too much weight to memorable, but atypical, cases. The norm grou...
Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction
The end goal of assessment is to obtain information that can be used to guide the important decisions psychologists and examinees must make. That means the information obtained from tests must be useful in predicting important real world phenomena. The issues that confront individuals and require predictions are as diverse as life itself: whether to get married or divorced, which course of study or job to pursue, whether an incarcerated individual should be permitted to rejoin the community,...
Computer Test Interpretation
The development of computer programs capable of preparing test interpretations was pioneered in the area of vocational interest measurement three decades ago. Since that time the practice has expanded to include personality tests and tests used in making psychological diagnoses. Essentially, the computer program compares the test results to the normative data available for the test and determines the range within which the score falls (e.g., very low, average, slightly elevated). It then sele...
Preparing the Interpretation
Expert test interpretation requires the integration of technical information about the test with an intimate understanding of the individual who has taken the test. This requires preparation. Despite extensive experience with the tests to be interpreted, conscientious psychologists review reference sources to refresh their memory of the nuances that are critical to insightful test interpretation. Furthermore, they realize that test scores must be interpreted in the context of the personality...
Preparing the Client
Despite the fact that the therapist and client have jointly agreed on the tests to administer and the timing of the test interpretation, psychologists realize that it is still important to prepare the client for the interpretation. Therapists give clients an opportunity to raise any issues they regard as important prior to discussing the test results. The therapist begins the test interpretation only after determining what will be the most effective use of the interview time. Psychologists le...
Purpose of Assessment
It is not possible to evaluate the practical utility of assessment without specifying the purpose of the assessment procedure; however, psychologists have given this issue little attention. It appears that most practicing psychologists use assessment procedures for one of three purposes. One is to obtain information for making predictions. For example, therapists perform assessments to obtain information for use in deciding how to work effectively with their clients or for use in advising the...
Effects of Test Interpretation
Howard E. A. Tinsley and Serena Chu reviewed 65 research studies that examined test interpretation outcomes. Most of the research focused on the interpretation of aptitude and ability tests. Virtually no research examined the interpretation of vocational interest tests or the use of tests in individual psychotherapy, couples counseling, family counseling, substance abuse counseling, or any of the many other specialty areas in which psychologists provide services. They found that few studies h...
Adroit test interpretation requires that psychologists extract accurate information from their assessment procedures, draw accurate inferences from that information, and accurately convey the results to their clients in a manner they can understand. There is little evidence documenting the ability of counseling psychologists to satisfy these requir...
SENTENCE ASSEMBLY o Expressive Language Index the complexity of understanding Assesses definitions and how to construct sentences Following presentation of visual or oral word combinations, the student produces syntactically and semantically correct sentences o Age Range: 9 to 21 Scaled Score: 13 Percentile: 84 19.
Jan 19, 2024 · The Rorschach test employs a series of ten bilaterally symmetrical inkblot cards, of which some are black or gray, and others could contain applications of color. The test taker is asked to provide their perceptions or perspectives on the presented ambiguous inkblot images.
What is automated perimetry? Here, we’ll only talk about the Humphrey visual field perimeter, which is used for 99% of visual field tests. It’s an automated, static perimeter (unlike Goldmann kinetic perimetry which requires a human operator, and uses a moving target).
Apr 22, 2011 · The purposes of this paper were to (a) review Messick’s unified view of validity and clarify his consequential basis of test interpretation and use, (b) discuss the kinds of questions evoked by value implications and social consequences and their role in construct validity and score meaning, (c) present a reframing of Messick’s model and a new m...
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Jan 25, 2024 · Common examples include the Rorschach inkblot test and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT). Projective tests in psychology are assessment tools that present individuals with ambiguous stimuli, prompting them to interpret or create stories about them.
