Exam 1: The World of Testing

Which law has led to a great increase in the number of statewide assessment programs for schools?

Emphasizing a careful link between diagnosis and treatment is one of the demands of ___

The textbook contrasts "paper-and-pencil" tests with ________ tests.

Within the major category of personality tests, two major subdivisions of tests are ___.

Who was primarily responsible for the transmission of Darwinian ideas of evolution into the emerging field of psychology?

The central interest in Galton's work was the study of -

Which of these persons was a key American contributor to establishing the field of testing?

In the term "objective personality test," the word "objective" refers mainly to how the test is ___.

Binet's test became available in America around what time?

One of the forces leading to the establishment of the field of testing in the early 1900s was the interest in making education more ________.

Among the most recent trends in psychological testing, the textbook mentions the development of computer programs that ___

In many areas of psychology, we seek to establish general laws about behavior. Another approach is to study how people vary. This second approach is called the ________ perspective.

Which set of schools established in the 1500s had strict guidelines for administration of exams?

What technical term do we use to refer to the stability of test performance?

The text identifies two major uses of tests in educational settings. One is to measure achievement. The other is to -

The dominant interest regarding human behavior of such writers as Aristotle and Plato was ___.

Darwin's theory of evolution was important to early work on testing primarily because the theory got people thinking about -

We know that making tests amenable to machine scoring was NOT a factor in the early development of multiple-choice tests because -

What technical term do we use to refer to whether a test measures what it purports to measure?

Some test interpretation compares performance to an external standard rather than to a set of norms. This type of interpretation is called ________ interpretation.