Which of the following is NOT true about performance-based assessment?
a. These instruments frequently measure speed and agility of the examinee.
b. They tend to minimize race-based differences.
c. They are often based on real-world tasks or responsibilities.
d. A portfolio is an example of a performance-based assessment.
e. They hope to predict how well one will achieve in a position.
Q. 2Some environmental assessments are professionally constructed. Which of the following is true regarding these instruments?
a. They are more rigorously constructed than informal assessments.
b. An example is the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function.
c. Observation often plays a key role in these instruments.
d. They offer a less distorted view than many other forms of assessment. e. All of these are true.
Q. 3Which of the following are you NOT likely to find on a genogram?
a. Family history of illnesses and mental disorders
b. Age or dates of birth and death
c. Substance use
d. Relationships and cultural issues
e. You are likely to find all of these.
Q. 4On a school counselor's personnel file, it is noted that a student tends to be consistently late to work. This is an example of a(n):
a. rating scale.
b. anecdotal record.
c. time sampling.
d. event sampling.
e. biographical data inventory.
Q. 5As part of a graduate school program's comprehensive exam, they ask each student to do a role play with a coached client. Each student is asked to do your best job at counseling the client. At the end of the role-play, the students are evaluated on a series of statements that uses a number line and statements that range from strongly disagree to strongly agree on factors such as use of empathic responses, paraphrasing, attentive listening, etc. Which rating scale is being used?
a. Numerical
b. Likert-type scale (graphic scale)
c. Semantic differential
d. Rank order
e. None of these
Q. 6During a role play between students and faculty in which the student acts as a counselor, other faculty look on and the audience faculty later make a hierarchical list of students from best to worst based on how they responded in the role-play. Which technique is being employed?
a. A rating scale
b. A rank order
c. A behavior checklist
d. A sociometric technique
e. Records and personal documents
Q. 7In applying for graduate school, a doctoral program asks potential students to role-play a counselor with a faculty member. The faculty member role-plays the same client with each potential doctoral student. Which technique is being employed?
a. A rating scale
b. A behavior checklist
c. A sociometric technique
d. A situational test
e. Records and personal documents
Q. 8After sharing information about one's family in a graduate class on family systems, the instructor asks each student to write down on a piece of paper the student with whom they most identify. The instructor then maps out the responses on the board. The instructor is using which of the following techniques?
a. A rating scale
b. An observational technique
c. A behavior checklist
d. A feeling word checklist
e. A sociometric technique
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