Problem: Post a brief description of the three tests you selected. Then explain appropriate uses of these tests. Finally, describe how you might use each test in a specific context and provide a rationale for using each test in the context described. Need Assignment Help?
Be sure to support your postings with specific references to the Learning Resources.
Intelligence Tests:
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, 4th Edition (WAIS-IV)
Academic Achievement Tests:
Wide Range Achievement Test, 4th Edition (WRAT4)
Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement
Vocational Interest Tests:
Career Assessment Inventory
Strong Interest Inventory
Test of Personality/Psychopathology:
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, 2 (MMPI-2)
References:
- Anastasi, A., & Urbina, S. (1997). Psychological testing Download Psychological testing(7th ed.). Prentice Hall.
- Chapter 17, "Major Contexts of Current Test Use"
- Credit line: Psychological testing, 7th edition by Anastasi, A., & Urbina, S. Copyright 1997 by Prentice Hall. Reprinted by permission of Prentice Hall via the Copyright Clearance Center. Licensed in 2023.
- American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education. (2014). Standards for educational and psychological testing. American Educational Research Association.
- Reckase, M. D. (1996). Test construction in the 1990s: Recent approaches every psychologist should know. Psychological Assessment, (4), 354-359.
- Schwarz, N., & Oyserman, D. (2001). Asking questions about behavior: Cognition, communication, and questionnaire construction. American Journal of Evaluation, 22 (2), 127-160.
- Wiggins, J. S., & Pincus, A. L. (1992). Personality structure and assessment. Annual Review of Psychology, 43, 473-504.