Psychological Assessment (Psych 162)
Athena Grace R. Raagas skills relevant to success or failure in a
BA in Psychology II school or preschool context
○ intelligence tests, achievement tests,
1. Testing and Assessment and reading comprehension tests are
● early 20th century in France some of the evaluative tools
2. Psychological Testing and Assessment ● retrospective assessment may be defined
Defined as the use of evaluative tools to draw
● testing - a term used to refer to everything conclusions about psychological aspects of a
from administering a test or interpreting test person as they existed at some point in time
scores. prior to the assessment.
○ during WWI, testing aptly described ● remote assessment refers to the use of
the group screening of thousands of tools of psychological evaluation to gather
military recruits data and draw conclusions about a subject
● assessment - a more inclusive term; that who is not in physical proximity to the person
emerged during WWII or people conducting the evaluation
● assessment center - OSS model; using an ● ecological momentary assessment (EMA)
innovative variety of evaluative tools along - refers to the “in-the-moment” evaluation of
with data from the evaluations of specific problems and related cognitive and
highly-trained assessors. behavioral variables at the very time and
● assessment acknowledges that tests are only place where they occur
one type of tool used by professional 2.2 The process of assessment
assessors ● begins with a referral for assessment from a
● psychological assessment - gathering and source such as a teacher, school
integration of psychology-related data to psychologist
make a psychological evaluation that is ● assessor prepares for the assessment by
accomplished through the use of tools such selecting the tools of assessment to be used
as tests interviews, case studies, behavioral ● the formal assessment will begin
observation, and specially designed ● the assessor writes a report of the findings
apparatuses and measurement designs that is designed to answer the referral
● psychological testing - the process of question
measuring psychology-related variables by Approaches to Assessment
means of devices or procedures designed to ● collaborative psychological assessment -
obtain a sample of behavior the assessor and assessee may work as
“partners” from initial contact through final
feedback
○ one variety of collaborative
assessment includes an element of
therapy as part of the process
○ therapeutic psychological
assessment - therapeutic
self-discovery and new
understandings are encouraged
throughout the assessment process.
● dynamic assessment - refers to an
interactive approach to psychological
assessment that usually follows a model of
(1) evaluation, (2) intervention of some sort,
and (3) evaluation.
○ dynamic is used to describe the
interactive, changing, or varying
2.1 Varieties of Assessment nature of the assessment.
● educational assessment refers to the use of 3. The Tools of Psychological Assessment
tests and other tools to evaluate abilities and 3.1 The Test
Psychological Assessment (Psych 162)
● test may be defined simply as a measuring
device or procedure
● psychological test refers to a device or
procedure designed to measure variables
related to psychology (such as intelligence,
personality, aptitude, interests, attitudes, or
values)
