1. What do you feel makes a test “good” or “bad”? Why do we have tests?
In school – tool for teachers to assess not only how you’re learning, but how they’re teaching as well.
Predicting how well a person might do in a particular career.
Predicting how successful a person might be in college.
Assessing an individual’s desires, interests, attitudes.
Revealing psychological problems.
Standardized tests allow us to compare one individual to another.
Bellringer:
What do you feel makes a test “good” or “bad”?
Why do we have tests?

2. Learning Targets Identify the most widely used personality tests
Describe the use of personality tests
Explain test reliability, validity, and standardization

3. 4E “Personality Tests”

4. Psychological Tests- What makes a good test?
Reliability – ability of a test to give the same results under similar conditions.
Test consistency
How do you test reliability
Re-take the same test and get the same results
Scored the same by different people

5. Psychological Tests- What makes a good test?
Validity: ability of a test to measure what it’s intended to measure
Measured by how well a test predicts performance
How do you test validity?
Make sure the purpose of the test is clear
Ex. A vocabulary test will not measure aptitude for engineering.

6. Psychological Tests- What makes a good test?
Standardization:
1. Test must be administered and scored the same way every time.
2. Norms or averages are established by a large group of people
Example of standardized tests: ACT, SAT, EOC, KOSSA,

7. A percentile is a comparison score
A percentile is a comparison score. It represents how well you did as compared to other students.
If you score in the 70th percentile, you scored better than 70 out of 100 people

8. Create a test for a Firefighter
What should the application requirements be?
What skills/knowledge should a department assess of its applicants?
Common Assessments:
Mechanical Aptitude
Situational Judgment and Reasoning
Directional Orientation
Reading Comprehension
Basic Mathematics
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Spelling
Recently, a court ruling said that math and reading requirements are not critical to the job of a firefighter and were discriminatory against minorities. What do you think?
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9. Respond to Tests What do you like about that groups tests
Do you think they are missing anything
Does a part seem unreliable, invalid, or cannot be standardized?

10. Personality Test Purpose
Psychologist and Psychiatrist uses personality test
Assesses personality characteristics and identifies problems
Can predict future behavior
Identify psychological disorders

11. Types of Personality Tests
Objective
MMPI-2
CPI
MEYERS-BRIGG
Projective
Rorchach Ink Blot
TAT (Thematic Appreciation Test)

12. Objective Most widely used style of personality test
Pencil and paper responses
Must select an answer to a question from a small number of choices
Multiple Choice or True/False

13. MMPI-2 It consist of 567 true/false or cannot say questions
The test goals
Reveal habits, fears, delusions, and symptoms of psychological disorders

14. The CPI- The California Psychological Inventory
Similar to the MMPI
The CPI does not measure psychological disorders and uses some of the same questions as the MMPI.
Measures traits
Responsibility, self-control, and tolerance (others/situations)

15. The Meyers-Briggs Focus How a person processes information
Makes decisions
Completes day-to-day task.
Test will determine
Introverted vs. extroverted
Intuition vs. sensing
Feeling vs. thinking
Judging vs. perceiving

16. Personality tests: Projective
a person is asked to respond freely, giving his or her opinion/interpretation of various stimuli
No right or wrong
Invite people to tell stories about pictures or objects
Since the pictures or objects have no meaning the story must tell us something about people
Can determine
Wishes
Fears
Unconscious feelings

17. Rochach Inkblot tests Best-known psychological test Procedure
Subject is shown a set of 10 ink blots and is asked what they see
Responses are recorded and other questions may be asked about the ink blot
Responses can determine certain aspects of personality and the unconscious
Example
Mention lots of movement=extroverted
Mentions about colors=Introverted

18. Create Your Own Inkblot
Take a plain white piece of paper
Pour paint into center of paper
Fold your paper in half. Hamburger style!
Unfold you paper and let dry
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19. TAT-The Thematic Appreciation Test
For each picture that follows:
write a short description of what is going on in the image.
Explain what the characters are doing
Explain their emotions
Explain why they are acting the way they are

20. These columns will need more room than this image displays!
Chart Drawing Time 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Write a short description of what is going on in the image.
Explain what the characters are doing
Explain their emotions
Explain why they are acting this way
These columns will need more room than this image displays!