Psychological Assessment Notes
Psychological Assessment Notes
(1st lecture)
Content:
1. Assessment Tools
2. Psychological Tests
3. Psychometric Properties
4. Process of Assessment
1939 – Recruitment of Military (to measure not only physical but also intelligence and
personality)
Norms – Relies on the number of test takers who take a given test, to establish what is normal
in the group (ex; intended for Filipinos 20 yrs old).
Assessment Tools:
2. Case History Data – refers to records, transcripts, and other accounts in written,
pictorial, or other form that preserve archival information, official, and informal accounts,
and other data and items relevant to an assessee.
5. Role play – a tool of assessment wherein assesses are directed to act as if they were in
a particular situation.
Design Properties:
Psychometric Properties:
1. Item Analysis
2. Reliability – The degree in which an instrument measures what it is intended to
measure under the same condition with the same subject. Give consistent results.
3. Validity – measures what it claims to measure. Achieving the purpose for which they
are being used.
Is the test measuring what it claims to measure?
Can a test predict future thinking and behavior?
Will participants take the test seriously?
General Steps:
PROCESS OF ASSESSMENT
1. Referral
Reasons for referral:
a. Clinical setting (diagnosis and intervention)
b. Educational setting (learning disability, behavioral and emotional problems)
c. Industrial setting (hiring and promotion)
d. Forensic (assessing the witness)
Sources of referral:
a. Clinical setting (psychiatrist, clinical psych, pastoral/marital counselors,
social workers, and self-referral)
b. Educational setting (teachers, guidance counselors, principal and parents)
c. Industrial setting (supervisors, managers and HR consultants)
d. Forensic (court, lawyers)
6. Integrate Data
Psychological Report – An organized presentation of assessment results.
Results may be presented in ways that clear, relevant to the goal of assessment and
useful to the intended consumer.
7. Communicate assessment data – report and oral feedback (to the owner of the data).
Psychological Assessment
(May 16, 2021 lecture)
BEFORE TESTING
We should know the following (to know the proper psychological test to administer):
Reason for referral (academic concerns, behavioural/emotional problems and forensic
purposes)
Gender
Age
Grade level
Language Spoken
Special concerns or issues
Testing place (well lighted, adequate ventilation, neither too small or big, minimal
distractions, and client friendly)
Materials to prepare (testing kit, record forms, extra papers, pencils, pens, and
sharpener, timer)
Self-preparation (testing procedure, read manuals thoroughly, practice and practice, be
sure to come prepared and confident, dress appropriately)
DURING TESTING
Record responses (immediately, verbatim, write legibly but can use shorthand)
Note behavioural observations (physical appearance, verbalization, gestures and body
movements, cooperation vs. resistance)
AFTER TESTING
Remember the following:
Complete record form (client examiner, examiner)
Score accurately (follow the manual, count correctly, use correct tables or convert raw
scores, scaled scores, IQ, and percentiles)