Exam 14: Ethical and Legal Issues in Assessment

It is especially important that test content is ___________________ in the areas of intelligence or general ability, achievement, and aptitude assessment.

One important reason counselors should ensure that assessment records are retained and maintained in a professional manner is because:

A helpful resource on ethics and assessment that consists of a series of case studies illustrating proper and improper test usage is:

The parent of an underage client requests to see a sample of the questions on a standardized achievement test you are responsible for administering.Your best response would be to:

With few exceptions, counselors cannot release a client's assessment results to a third party unless:

What legislation stipulates that no student shall be required, without parental permission, to submit to psychological examination, testing, or treatment that may reveal information concerning mental and psychological problems potentially embarrassing to the student or the student's family?

The legislation that gives parents the right to access their children's educational records is the:

What is the purpose of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004?

The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing include guidelines for each of the following aspects of assessment, except for:

In determining a diagnosis, a counselor should consider what is accurate and what:

The majority of court cases related to assessment have focused on:

Which of the following involves informing the client about both the nature of the information being collected and the purpose(s) for which the results will be used?

A court case that raised questions about whether personality tests used for employment screening were an invasion of privacy was:

Which of the following serves as a technical guide for testing practices?

After taking an assessment instrument, a client has the right to:

Which requirement of the New York's "Truth in Testing" law did test publishers object to the most?

In which of the following situations would a counselor not have to obtain informed consent to perform some type of assessment?

What do the cases of Regents of the University of California v.Bakke (1978) and Grutter v.Bollinger et al.have in common?

Laws are related to a body of rules, while ethics are a body of __________.

Who is ultimately responsible for test or instrument usage?