Evaluation of Test Purpose, Population, and Training (BCBA, Behavior Analytic Assessments)

Preparation

Download the Assessment 1 Template (attached below) and use it as the basis of your assessment. The template contains instructions to guide you through each element of the assessment.

This assessment requires you to focus on what will likely be a common task in your future career: the review and selection of an appropriate, quality, standardized test. There is a multitude of published tests in the fields of education and psychology, and many purport to measure the same constructs, content, or skills. Therefore, test users must select tests that best match their purpose for assessing clients and are appropriate for the populations they assess.

Instructions

In your assessment, be prepared to do the following:

Visit the publisher’s website for each test to obtain additional information.

• If the test is not owned by a publishing company, you will need to find this information in other sources, such as journal articles.
• Use the MMY database (Mental Measurements Yearbook) in the Capella library to locate and read a review for each test.

Not all tests have been reviewed by the MMY (Mental Measurements Yearbook). If your test has not been reviewed, you will need to find the information in another source, such as a journal article.

Note: Be sure to use the Assessment 1 Template.

Requirements

By successfully completing this assessment with the Assessment 1 Template, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Select three tests from a single category using the List of Tests [Document attached below, please use the Behavior Analytic Assessments category]. 
• Compare and contrast these three tests based on the following:
  • The purpose for testing, the content, skills, or constructs assessed and evaluated based on one’s area of specialization or a related profession (Board Certified Behavior Analyst).
  • The normative sample, sampling procedures, and the intended population and evaluation based on the anticipated populations served by one’s specialization or related profession.
  • The training required to administer, score, and interpret and evaluate based on one’s anticipated assessment training or the training of a related profession.
  • Use scholarly articles that discuss the test.
    • Do bibliography mining to find the original source of the test.
    • Do cited reference searching to find articles that use the test and their research or discuss the test

• References: A minimum of nine references is required for this assessment. These resources may include all of the reference sources identified in your Psychological Testing and Assessment text but must include:
  • Three journal articles (one for each test).
  • Three test publisher websites (one for each test).
    • If there is no test publisher website for a selected test, you must substitute this with another type of source.
  • Three MMY test reviews (one for each test if available). If an MMY review is not available for one or more of your selected tests, you must substitute it with another type of source.
• Length of paper: A minimum of five double-spaced pages of content, not including the title page or references (an abstract is not required).
• Font and font-size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
• APA format: Current APA format and style is required throughout.