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NCE Exam – Appraisal Top exam questions and answers, 100% Accurate, rated A Appraisal can be defined as - ✔✔-The process of assessing or estimating attributes A test can be defined as a sy... stematic method of measuring a sample of behavior. Test format refers to the manner in which test items are presented. The format of an essay test is considered a ___________ format - ✔✔-Subjective The National Counselor Exam (NCE) is an __________ test because the scoring procedure is specific - ✔✔-Objective A short answer test is a ________ test - ✔✔-Free choice The NCE is a ________ test - ✔✔-Forced choice The ___________ index indices the percentage of individuals who answered each item correctly - ✔✔- Difficulty Short answer tests and projective measures utilize free response items. The NCE and the CPCE uses forced choice or so called _________ items. - ✔✔-Recognition A true/false test has _________ recognition items - ✔✔-Dichotomous A test format could be normative or ipsative. In the normative format - ✔✔-Each item is independent of all other items A client who takes a normative test - ✔✔-Can legitimately be compared to others who have taken the test In an ipsative measure the person taking the test must compare items to one another. The result is that - ✔✔-You cannot legitimately compare two or more people who have taken an ipsative test Tests are often classified as speed tests versus power tests. A timed typing test used to hire secretaries would be - ✔✔-A speed test A counseling test consists of 300 forced response items. The person taking the test can take as long as he or she wants to answer the question. - ✔✔-This is most likely a power test An achievment test measures maximum performance while a personality test or interest inventory measures - ✔✔-Typical performance In a spiral test - ✔✔-The interns get progressively more difficult In a cyclical test - ✔✔-You have several sections which are spiral in nature A test battery is considered - ✔✔-A horizontal test In a counseling research study two groups of subjects too a test with the same name. However, when they talked with each other they discovered that the questions were different. The researcher assured both groups that they were given the same test. How is this possible? - ✔✔-The researcher gave parallel forms of the same test The most critical factors in test selections are - ✔✔-validity and reliability Which is more important, validity or reliability? - ✔✔-Validity In the field of testing, validity refers to - ✔✔-Whether the test really measures what it purports to measure A counselor pursues a testing catalog in search of a test which will repeatedly give consistent results. The counselor - ✔✔-Is interested in reliability Which measure would held the highest level of reliability? - ✔✔-A very accurate scale Construct validity refers to the extent that a test measures an abstract trait or psychological notion. An example would be - ✔✔-Ego strength Face validity refers to the extent that a test - ✔✔-Looks or appears to measure the intended attribute A job test which predicted future performance on a job very well would - ✔✔-Have high criterion/predictive validity A new IQ test which yielded results nearly identical to other standardized measures would be said to have - ✔✔-Good concurrent validity When a counselor tells a client that the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) will predict her ability to handle graduate work, the counselor is referring to - ✔✔-Predictive validity A reliable test is _______ valid - ✔✔-Not always A valid test is _______ reliable - ✔✔-Always One method of testing reliability is to give the same test to the same group of people two times and then correlate the scores. This is called - ✔✔-Test-retest reliability One method of testing reliability is to give the same population alternate forms of the identical test. Each form will have the same psychometric /statistical properties as the original instrument. This is known as - ✔✔-Equivalent or alternate forms reliability A consoler doing research decided to split a standardized test in half by using the even items as one test and the odd items as a second test and then correlating them. The counselor - ✔✔-Was testing reliability via the split half method Which method of reliability testing would be useful with an essay test but not with a test of algebra problems? - ✔✔-Interrater/interobserve [Show More]

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