{"id":29900,"date":"2024-07-17T02:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T02:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/wk-4-summative-assessment-test-development-psychological-construct-due-mon\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T02:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T02:23:52","slug":"wk-4-summative-assessment-test-development-psychological-construct-due-mon","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/wk-4-summative-assessment-test-development-psychological-construct-due-mon\/","title":{"rendered":"Wk 4 &#8211; Summative Assessment: Test Development: Psychological Construct [due Mon]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Psychometrics is a broad term used to define the theory behind the use and practice of psychological assessments. Psychological assessments comprise the measurement of psychological constructs and how that information is used in a clinical setting to help formulate the clinical case and make treatment decisions. Psychometrics is also used in a forensic setting to answer questions about a person involved in the legal system, such as criminal prosecution or for a civil matter (e.g., custody dispute). Data from psychological assessments is also used to improve efficiency and overall functioning in an organizational setting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Construct Development and Test Creation Paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Throughout Weeks 3 and 4, we explored the properties of psychometric assessments. For this assignment, you will apply those principles to develop your own test to measure a psychological construct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Imagine <\/strong>you are working as a research assistant and have been asked to develop a measurement construct to solve a problem or collect data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Choose<\/strong> a construct you would like to measure (depression, anxiety, etc.).<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Create<\/strong> an operational definition of your construct using at least 3 peer-reviewed journal articles as references (you can use the DSM as a scholarly source to define your construct, but please do not use websites).<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Create <\/strong>a 10-question test to measure the construct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Write<\/strong> a 1,100word analysis in which you:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 3rem 0px 1.5rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Justify whether this is an interview or self-report instrument and the method of scaling you used to create the test items.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Describe the methods you used for item selection and how item selection was evaluated.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Describe how you would norm this instrument. For your description, you should:<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 4.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Discuss how many people you would give it to.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 4.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Describe the characteristics that your respondents would have (gender, age, SES, etc.).<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 4.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Explain to whom the instrument would be generalized.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Describe how you would establish reliability.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">Describe how you would establish validity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychometrics is a broad term used to define the theory behind the use and practice of psychological assessments. Psychological assessments comprise the measurement of psychological constructs and how that information is used in a clinical setting to help formulate the clinical case and make treatment decisions. Psychometrics is also used in a forensic setting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[7],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/29900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/29900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=29900"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=29900"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=29900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}