Ψlogical
Testing

Chapter 7
Test Administration

House keeping 🧹🗑

  • First exam 3/6 (Thurs)
    • In class, but administered via Canvas (Ch 1 \(\rightarrow\) 8)
  • Project:
    • keep revising
    • Hinkin (2005)
    • item writing

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Test Administration!!

Another methodological Consideration

  • Administration
  • Item type ✅
  • Population (test takers) ✅
  • Comparison (norms) ✅

Administrator

aka proctor or tester/examiner

  • rapport
  • familiarity
  • reinforcement
    • expectancy
  • nonverbals
  • training

Stereotype threat

  • negative stereotype exists at group level
  • strain from internalized pressure to disconfirm stereotype
  • observed score suppression
    • X = T + e

Minimizing Threat

  • framing
  • remove cues when possible
  • minimize if can’t remove:
    • demographics at end

Language barriers

  • can be an obstacle for access to construct
  • translations costly & questionable equivalence
    • forward–back procedure

Tip

Not much research attention – good candidate for novel contributions

Administrator training

  • administration manual can help
    • standardization
  • some test publishers require certification

Computer as administrator

  • very popular
  • avoids most administrator effects
    • standardization
  • facilitates recording of response latency
  • immediate scoring
    • scale score(s)

Test anxiety

  • [very common](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12207-023-09494-0#:~:text=Base%20Rates%20of%20Test%20Anxiety%20Symptoms&text=Depending%20on%20the%20item%20(across,particular%20symptom%20at%20least%20sometimes.) (self–reported)
  • self–defeating
    • worry
    • emotionality
    • self–confidence deficit

The forward–back procedure is applied to test…

  • translations
  • takers
  • administrators
  • publishers

Non-verbal cues given by the administrator can introduce error into observed scores

  • True
  • False

The most recent odds of asteroid YR4 hitting the earth in 2032 are…

  • 1.5%
  • .0027%
  • .005%
  • .28%

Ensuring every test taker has a similar test experience is…

  • standardization
  • weird
  • considerate
  • norming

References

Hinkin, T. R. (2005). Research in organizations: Foundations and methods of inquiry (R. A. Swanson & E. F. Holton III, Eds.; pp. 161–179). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.