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Assessment and Testing
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What this path helps you do
- Practice supported here
- Compare measures, interpret reliability and score uncertainty, and distinguish screening from a diagnostic conclusion.
- Preparation
- Review measurement levels, reference groups, reliability, and validity before interpreting scores.
- Where to go further
- The lessons do not authorize use of restricted instruments or substitute for test manuals, norm tables, and supervised administration.
Reliability is not validity
Distinguish consistency from evidence supporting an interpretation.
Interpret scores in context
Compare norm-referenced and criterion-referenced interpretations.
Scores, distributions & statistical meaning
Interpret a score using its scale, reference group, and uncertainty.
Use career assessments collaboratively
Explain results without turning them into prescriptions.
Screening is not diagnosis
Distinguish a screen, a diagnostic assessment, and a case formulation.
Intake, mental status & differential reasoning
Organize assessment information before deciding what it supports.
Explaining an assessment score and its uncertainty to a client
Calculate and explain a fictional score's measurement interval under stated assumptions.
Choosing a measure: population, purpose, language, and accessibility
Defend a measure choice using purpose, population, precision, validity, and feasibility.
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