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For this assignment, locate a minimum of five resources (a minimum three peer-reviewed journal articles) pertaining to your test's construction, item development, procedures utilized in construction to minimize offensive content, and provisions of modifications and accommodations for test takers. You will not be required or need to have a copy of your test to complete this assignment. You may use many different types of references and sources to obtain this information about your test. These references may include journal articles, literature reviews, Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) reviews, reviews, and publisher Web sites.
Compose your findings into a paper using the following outline (please use these headings):
- Title Page (required).
- Abstract (optional).
- Introduction: Identify the standardized test you selected in Unit 2, and its stated purpose.
- Test items and format.
- Identify type or format of test items.
- Identify formats of the test that are available (including alternate forms, audio, computer, et cetera).
- Identify the types of scores obtained from the test. (Include information about norms.)
- Evaluate and identify or cite positive aspects of test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.
- Evaluate and identify or cite negative aspects of test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.
- Summarize the quality and appropriateness of the test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.
- Fair and appropriate materials.
- Identify or cite positive and negative aspects of test materials that minimize potentially offensive content or language. Explain.
- Identify or cite if the test allows appropriate modifications or accommodations. Explain how or why it does not allow such modifications or accommodations.
- Cite at least one AERA standard for Supporting Documentation for Tests (see Chapter 7 of your Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing text) that are implicated in either the positive or negative aspects of your selected test.
- Use of technology.
- Discuss and evaluate how advances in technology have been utilized or incorporated with your selected test to address test items and format.
- Discuss and evaluate how advances in technology have been utilized or incorporate with your selected test to address fair and appropriate materials.
- Synthesis of findings.
- Identify any major strengths you identified for your test in terms of test items and materials.
- Identify any weaknesses, even if they are relative, regarding your test in terms of test items and materials.
- Conclusions and recommendations.
- Evaluate your selected test based on the strengths and weaknesses, and advantages and disadvantages of the test items, materials, and their appropriateness.
- Make at least three recommendations about improvements that could be considered to improve the test, if applicable. Cite standards (AERA) to support each recommendation.
- References (required, use current APA format and style
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
- References: A minimum of five references (a minimum of three peer-reviewed journal articles among the five).
- Length of paper: At least five pages (not including title page, abstract, or references).
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Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment- Outline
Thesis Statement: The test is designed to allow the assessment, planning of interventions, and
evaluation of outcomes with multiple perspectives on an individual’s functioning.
I. Introduction
II. Test items and format
III. Fair and appropriate materials
IV. Use of Technology
V. Synthesis and findings
VI. Conclusions and Recommendations
Running head: ACHENBACH SYSTEM OF EMPIRICALLY BASED ASSESSMENT
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Introduction
Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) is an approach to
assessing adaptive and maladaptive functioning. The standardized test which was developed in
the 1960s utilizes questionnaires to assess the overall functioning of the individual through a
checklist and a series of report forms. With norm-referenced scores for each age group, the
standardized test contains different versions for different age groups including pre-school
children, school-going children, adults, and older adults. The test is designed to allow the
assessment, planning of interventions, and evaluation of outcomes with multiple perspectives on
an individual’s functioning.
Test items and format
ASEBA mainly utilizes questionnaires as the main format of the test items. These
questionnaires each have a list of items that the caregiver checks to come up with an evidencebased assessment of the functioning of the individual in question. The use of questionnaires,
according to Liu et al. (2012), allows the caregivers to utilize their experience dealing with the
individual to present the best evidence towards a particular assessment. The test items in these
questionnaires are mainly Yes/No items as well as multiple-choice items. In the multiple choice
items, the caregiver is expected to choose a figure that best represents the behavior of the client
in question.
Furthermore, other than the test items, different formats may exist for ASEBA to assist
people with disabilities. While the basic approach involves filling in test forms by hand, one can
also be assisted in the filling of the forms by taking an audio version of ASEBA. This alternate
form allows caregivers who may be visually impaired to effectively participate in the
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standardized test as well. However, the main format of ASEBA is usually the hand-written
format which involves filling in the forms which have been printed and then submitting them to
the psyc...
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