Educational Psychology
Chapter 13 Learning Goals
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Discuss the importance to teachers of understanding standardized
testing.
- Explain what a standardized test is.
- Describe the two basic types of intelligence tests and give examples of
each.
- Compare and contrast the two types of intelligence test scores given in
the textbook.
- Describe tests of aptitude versus tests of interests.
- Define and give examples of tests of achievement.
- Explain how to assess test quality.
- Compare and contrast population with sample.
- Explain reliability, and give examples of three types of reliability.
- Explain validity and give examples of three types of validity.
- Discuss the statistical concepts underlying test scores.
- Describe the five types of scores teachers are expected to interpret
from standardized tests.
- Define test bias in three different ways.
- Discuss three aspects of culture that apply to the context of
standardized testing.
- Describe two of the more common ways in which standardized test scores
are misused in American schools.
- Describe the most important new trend in standardized testing.