Which legislative act requires efforts to create a fair testing environment for individuals with disabilities?
a. Americans with Disabilities Act
b. No Child Left Behind
c. Alternative Education Access Act
d. Brown vs. Board of Education
Q. 2When a school counselor provides a student with verbal administration and extra time to complete a test based on a disability, this is an example of:
a. Accommodations
b. Assistive testing practices
c. Affiliation agreements
d. Acclimating
Q. 3Which of the following conditions is not recommended for assessment fairness?
a. Scores are used and interpreted the same across test takers
b. Participants have same opportunities for preparation
c. Similar testing conditions exist for all participants
d. All of these are true
Q. 4Construct Underrepresentation occurs when:
a. Personality traits, but not clinical symptoms are evaluated
b. Items fail to measure important aspects of a construct
c. Items are biased toward a particular ethnicity
d. Items are biased toward a particular age group
Q. 5A Special Population is one that:
a. Was not included in the norm group
b. Does exceptionally well on a particular group
c. Has an IQ in the top 85 of same age peers
d. Chose counseling as a profession
Q. 6Which of the following is not true of bias in assessment?
a. It is expected
b. Just because an instrument is biased does not mean it is unfair
c. Biased instruments are unfair instruments
d. Evaluation of bias is essential
Q. 7Which of the following is a reason that a group may not have been included in normative sample?
a. Instruments are developed with a certain population in mind
b. Difficulty developing a sample size that is sufficient
c. Lack of knowledge about factor analysis
d. Both A & B
Q. 8If men respond different than women on the same test item, this is an example of:
a. Inferential bias
b. General bias
c. Predictive bias
d. Item bias
Q. 9In assessment bias occurs when:
a. Group scores are the same, but subgroup scores are somewhat different
b. Groups or subgroups experience differences in scores on the same instrument
c. The test administrator is demographically different from the test taker
d. Patterns of responding are the same among all age groups
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