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Psychological Testing
Guidance and Counseling Board Examination Review
(Part I)
• De Jesus
• Munarriz, Cervera
• DSM 5
• Behavioral Research Method
• Assessment of Children and Adolescents
• List of Psychological Tests (Internet)
Psychological Tes.ng
• Psychological tes.ng means
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Purposes:
✏ Descrip(on
✏ Make Inferences
Psychological Testing
✏ a standardized measurement of a
sample of behavior
✏establishing norms
✏important test items that correspond
to what the test is to discover about the
test-taker
✏based on the uniformity of procedures
in administering and scoring the test
Standardized
✏ There is an established
reference point that a test scorer
can use to evaluate, judge,
measure against, and compare.
4, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1
Median and Mode
• Median
• Mode
Exercise
Find the median and mode:
4, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1
Mean = 2
Median = 1.5
Mode = 1
Range
• The Range is the difference between the
lowest and highest values.
Range
Standard Deviation
The answer is the population standard deviation. The formula is only true if
the eight numbers we started with are the whole group. If they are only a
part of the group picked at random, then we should use 7 (which is n − 1)
instead of 8 (which is n) in the bottom (denominator) of the second-to-last
step. Then the answer is the sample standard deviation.
Z score
• Difference between a score and the mean, divided by
the standard devia6on
• The devia6on of score from the mean in standard
devia+on unit
Z score
Example 1:
X=6
Mean = 3
S=3
Frequency Distribution
Percentile Ranks
• Answers the question, “What percent of the scores fall below
a particular score?”
T score
• Exactly the same as standard scores (Z scores)
except that the mean is 50 rather than 0 and
the standard devia:on is 10 rather than 1.
T = 10Z + 50
Quar%les and Deciles
• Quartiles are points that divide the distribution
into equal fourths. The first quartile is the 25th
percentile, the second is the median or the 50th
percentile; and the third quartile is the 75th
percentile.
• Deciles are similar to quartiles except that they
use points that mark 10% rather than 25%
intervals. The top decile, or D9, is the point below
which 90% of the cases fall, D8 marks the 80%
percentile and so forth
Correla'on
• Scatter diagram
– Picture of the relationship between two variables
Correlation
Correlation
• Correlational analysis is designed primarily to
examine linear relationships between
variables
• A correlation coefficient is a mathematical
index that describes the direction and
magnitude of a relationship.
Correla'on
Correlation Coefficient
• computational formula:
Coefficient of Determination (r2)
MA = 34 MA= 30
CA = 40 CA = 15
IQ = ? IQ = ?
IQ
Exercises:
MA = 7 MA = 20
CA = 7 CA = 16
IQ = 100 IQ = 125
MA = 34 MA= 30
CA = 40 CA = 15
IQ = 85 IQ = 200
Reliability vs Validity
Reliability