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Ψlogical
Testing
Chapter 7
Test Administration
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
- academic degree may or may not suffice
- sometimes optional
Computer as administrator
- very popular
- avoids most administrator effects
- standardization
- facilitates recording of response latency
- immediate scoring
- scale score(s)
Test anxiety
- very common (self–reported)
- self–defeating
- worry
- emotionality
- self–confidence deficit
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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.
Ψlogical Testing Chapter 7 Test Administration