Module 6 Assessment Concepts in Career Counseling

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Module 6 Assessment Conceptsin Career Counseling

• Chapters 7

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Using Assessment in Career Counseling

• Standard Error of Measurement
• T O-E
• A persons true score can only be obtained if you
  have a perfect instrument, a perfect setting, and
  a perfect person.

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Bell Shaped Curve

• Refers to a symmetrical curve around a mean.
• The curve can be computed using an equation
• Most educational and psychological variables
  (intelligence) have a bell distribution
• The mean is at the midpoint (50th percentile)

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Percentile Equivalents

• Highly popular way of describing standardized
  scores
• The average fits between the 25th and 75th
  percentile.
• Always check out the norm group.

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Stanine Scores

• Standard score with nine approximately equal
  units.
• The mean stanine is 5.
• The standard deviation is 2.
• Scores are presented as a range rather than as
  points on a scale.

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Grade Equivalents

• A way of transforming raw scores into a
  standardized format.
• Based on grade level and 10 months of the year.
• 10.5 would mean that the student is performing at
  a 10th grade level during the month of February.

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Expectancy Table

• Think of the ACT scores.
• Counselors use this to advise students about
  their chances in college.
• Number not in parentheses are the number of
  students whose grade point averages are in the
  designated range.
• Number in the parentheses are the cumulative
  percents of individuals within a particular ACT
  range.

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Three Things to Remember

• Dont be overconfident about test scores
• Use several instruments if possible
• Be tentative in everything you say when
  discussing someones score