HOW STANDARDIZED TEST

ARE USED, DESIGN, AND SELECTED

Types of current level of knowledge or

Types of
skill in a particular area.
Standardized Test Psychological Test
Ability
potential to learn or extent to which a Intelligence
Achievement develop proficiency person has acquired
in some area, certain information Test
Aptitude provided that of hasmastered
Personality
certain condition exist. identified skills. Achievement

determine a person’s measure a person’s

Test
Interest interest in a certain tendency to behave
Test
Inventories are or vocation in a particular way Aptitude
and are not used
to young children. Test

Test for Infants

Steps in Test validity
Standardized
- degree to which the test serves
status of a the purpose for which it will be
Neonatal used.
new born.
Status Test Design Content validity
- degree to which the test items measured the test
objectives and fulfilled the purpose of the test

Criterion-related validity
infant 1. Specifying the
Infant & development

the validity of a test
- concerned with
purpose of the test Concurrent validity
Toddler from 1 month - - current measure are used in this

Dev't 2 years 2. Determining test validity

Construct validity
format - measures a relatively abstract

Test for
psychological trait.
3. Developing
Preschool Children experimental

forms Test reliability
- extent to which a test is
Screening - measure cognitive, language, 4. Assembling the stable or consistent
Test motor and social development
test Internal consistency
- the items on each half of the test
Diagnostic - detect delays and
5. Standardizing are positively correlated in
Test individual activities the test measure the same characteristics

6. Developing the Test-retest reliability

- single test form to a norming group
Language - measure receptive and
Test expressive language Test Manual and administering it again after a
short interval