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CPCE: Assessment Questions and Answers Already Graded A Measurement ✔✔General process of determining the dimensions of an attribute or trait. Assessment ✔✔Processes and procedures for colle... cting information about human behavior. Assessment tools include tests and inventories, rating scales, observation, interview data and other techniques. Appraisal ✔✔Appraisal implies going beyond measurement to making judgments about human attributes and behaviors and is used interchangeably with evaluation. Interpretation ✔✔Making a statement about the meaning or usefulness of measurement data according to the professional counselor's knowledge and judgment. Measures of Central Tendency ✔✔A distribution of scores (measurements on a number of individuals) can be examined using the following measures: Mean; the arithmetic average symbolized by X or M Median: the middle score in a distribution of scores Mode: the most frequent score in a distribution of scores All three of these fall in the same place (are identical) when the distribution of scores is symmetrical, i.e., normally distributed (not skewed). Skew ✔✔The degree to which a distribution of scores is not normally distributed Positive Skew: tail to right Negative Skew: tail to left The mean is pulled in the direction of the extreme scores represented by the tail of a skewed distribution. Range ✔✔Measure of variability. The highest score minus the lowest score. Some researchers talk of inclusive range which is the high score minus the low score and adding one (1). Standard Deviation ✔✔Measure of variability. this value describes the variability within a distribution of scores. We use the symbol SD to signify the standard deviation of a sample. When we talk about the population's variability, we use the symbol a (sigma). Standard deviation is essentially the mean of all the deviations from the mean. It is an excellent measure of the dispersion of scores. Variance ✔✔Measure of variabili [Show More]

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