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EXAM 2, CHAPTER 9 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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EXAM 2, CHAPTER 9 QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
# Group-Administered Mental Ability Tests given Annually in US - ANSWER 50 million
4 Uses of Group Tests: - ANSWER 1. elementary and secondary schools
• usually given in conjunction with a standardized achievement test
o compare and look for discrepancies
discrepancy: (learning difference)
2. predicting success in college, graduate, or professional schools
• SAT, GRE, LSAT
3. job selection/placement in business and military settings
4. research in the social or behavioral sciences
8 common characteristics of Group Tests: - ANSWER 1. can be administered to large groups
2. content is similar to individual tests
3. Multiple Choice, machine-scored items
4. fixed time-limit, fixed number of items
5. bimodal distribution of administration times: 45-60 mins or 2.5 to 3 hours
6. total score plus several subscores
7. normative samples are very large
8. principal purpose: prediction
• success or mental retardation
Group Mental Ability Tests structure: - ANSWER • do not have start/stop rules
• multilevel test structure: accommodates individual differences by having different levels of the test for
different ages or grades
o various levels are linked statistically to allow for continuous score scales throughout the range covered
by the test
, Arthur Otis: - ANSWER created group-administered form of stanford-binet (army alpha and beta)
& Otis-Lennon School ability test, 8th edition (OLSAT 8): among most widely used group-administered
tests of mental ability
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, 8th edition (OLSAT 8) - ANSWER among most widely used group-
administered tests of mental ability
o designed to measure verbal, quantitative and figural reasoning skills that are most closely related to
scholastic achievement
o jointly normed with stanford achievement test, 10th edition
•given at selected grade levels
OLSAT 8 structure: - ANSWER • 7 levels (A-G) which correspond (roughly) to K- 12th
• selection of level depends on age, grade in school, or estimated ability
• work time is 1 hour for each level
o reading directions + completing practice items
• tests overlap in their coverage in order to assess students with lower and greater ability within a level
OLSAT 8 framework: - ANSWER • adopts Vernon's hierarchal model of intelligence
o specific factors→minor group factors→major group factors (v:ed and k:m)→g
o in reality, OLSAT only measures v:ed portion of the model
OLSAT 8 items: - ANSWER clusters of items include verbal comp, verbal reasoning, pictorial reasoning,
figural reasoning, and quantitative reasoning
OLSAT 8 scores: - ANSWER • total score
• verbal subscore
• nonverbal subscore
3 scores are converted to School Ability Index
School Ability index (SAI): - ANSWER M = 100, SD = 16
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