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 Assignment | Unit 2

Psychological assessment is an imperfect endeavor. However, we strive toward the assessment being good enough to be useful. Sometimes examiners have to make decisions about what type of error is acceptable.

Using the website http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp, select a psychological assessment instrument in your field of interest that measures a particular variable you feel is useful to assess.

Note: Do not purchase a review of any test. You will use the Buros website to look up the name and brief description of a test and then conduct further research on your own about this test.

Briefly define and discuss hits, misses, false positive errors, and false negative errors. Using your selected instrument and considering your area of interest, discuss each of these four issues as they might apply to interpreting and validly using the instrument you have chosen.

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Minimum 5 pages (not including Title Page and Reference List)

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Running Head: Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire Assessment

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Running Head: Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire Assessment

Assessment of Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ)
The MQ involves in evaluation of three main different leadership styles: transactional,
transformational and passive-avoidant. This tool enables measure to able to determine how they
perceive themselves regarding a specific leadership behavior. it is important to note that the
MLQ is particularly enabled with Rater form. It was purposely designed with 360-degree method
feedback. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire is specifically well and highly established
tool in measuring and analyzing of transformational leadership. it is also one of the highly
researched and validated instrument. The Bass and Avolio’s MLQ manual demonstrates firm
evidence for MLQ validity. This tool is extensively used in hundreds of doctoral dissertations,
research programs and master theses, along with various outcomes in transformational
leadership.
Also known as MLQ 5X short, the MLA involves in measuring range of leadership styles from
leaders who offer contingent rewards to their followers, to passive leaders and even to those
leaders who help to transform and change their followers to becoming better leaders themselves.
This tool helps to identify the transformational leadership characteristics and helps people to
disclose how they can better evaluate their own lens of leadership and those of others. Success is
usually measured through program retesting to help in tracking changes in leadership styles. The
MLA is currently considered a better and standard tool for assessing and measuring different
range of transactional, transformational and non-leadership scales. The co-efficient of
transformational leadership has been validated in various settings around the world. In the last
few decades, both the...


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