This document provides an overview of psychological assessment presented by Dr. Rhea Fiser. It discusses why psychological assessment is important, including that it can help make companies successful, save lives, and earn money. The document also notes that psychological assessment is included in licensure exams for psychometricians and psychologists. It reviews basic principles of psychometrics and assessment, types of psychological tests and their administration, characteristics of instruments, and behaviors that can be measured. Limitations and dangers of testing are also addressed.

1. PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSESSMENT
Presented by:
DR. RHEA FISER, RPsy, Rpm, CSIOP

2. Why study Psychological Assessment
1. Trademark of Psychologist &
Psychometrician
Makes you unique
2. Gives CREDIBILITY
When do we become credible
(believable)?
Answer: If there is a BASIS

3. Why study Psychological Assessment
3. Can be powerful psychologist &
psychometrician
3 W A Y S
A. Make a company successful
(Successful company=RIGHT
PEOPLE)
B. Save someone’s Life
(Suicidal)
C. Can make you earn Plenty of
Money (Get paid for administration,
scoring, interpretation, construction)

4. Why study Psychological Assessment
4. Included in Board Licensure Examination for
Psychometrician & Psychologist (BLEPP)
Outcome Weight # of
items
1. Apply technical concepts: Basic principles and topics of
psychometrics and psychological assessment
20% 29
2.Describe the process, research methods and statistics used
in test development and standardization
20% 29
3.Identify the importance, benefits and Limitation of
psychological assessment
10% 19
4.Identify, assess and evaluate the methods and tools of
psychological assessment relative to the specific purpose and
context: school, hospital, industry and community
20% 29
5.Evaluate the administration and scoring procedures of
intelligence and objective personality tests and other
alternative forms of tests.
15% 22
6. Apply ethical considerations and standard in the various
dimensions of psychological assessment
15% 22
100% 150

5. Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment
1. Psychometrics
Psycho
Greek “Psyche”
Mind Mental Dimension
Metric
to measure, to quantify

6. Psychometrics
the branch of psychology that deals
with design, administration and
interpretation of quantitative test for
measurement of psychological
variables such as intelligence, aptitude
and personality traits.
GOAL:
Estimate your number of mind’s
dimension
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

7. Psychological Measurement
computing/ scoring an individual’s
psychological test result.
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

8. Psychological Assessment
Making sense of numbers
End Product: Psychological
Report
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

9. CASE # 1
Mark has a low academic achievement
standing that may due to his high
neuroticism and lack of social skills.
His difficulty dealing with people
(classmates & teachers) bring stress to
his school life which may negatively
affect his motivation and his drive to
academically achieve.
It can be certain that his low general
average of 65% is not due to biological
abnormality in the brain as his IQ from
OLSAT shows that he has an average
capability in terms of intellectual
functioning

10. PSYCHOLOGICALASSESSMENT
IS NOT ALWAYS
Based on Psychological Test.
Other Tools:
• Case History
• Behavioral Observations
• Psychological Interview

11. Psychological assessment
⦿ the gathering and integration of
psychology-related data for the
purpose of making a
psychological evaluation,,
accomplished through the use
of tools such as tests,
interviews, case studies,
behavioral observation and
specially designed apparatuses
and measurement procedures.
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

12. Why is Psychological Assessment
Important?
1. Allows us to make important decisions about
people.
e.g. Early School Placement, College Entrance Decisions, Military Job
Selections
2. Allows us to describe & understand behavior
3. Measures personal attributes
4. Measures performance
5. Saves time
6. Most economical
7. It’s Scientific

13. Psychological testing
a tool for Psychological Assessment
Not ALL TEST are psychological test
Criteria # 1 Measures Dimension/s of human
mind, personality, intelligence,
religiosity, stress levels, etc
Criteria # 2 The test should be STANDARDIZED
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

14. Psychological testing
Criteria # 2 The test should be
STANDARDIZED
Strict guidelines in using it…..
• How to administer (i.e Time)
• Materials needed (i.e Pencils)
• Who should take the test (i.e age limit)
That is why: Real Psychological Test
has a TEST MANUAL
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

15. Psychological testing
⦿ the process of measuring psychology-
related variables by means of devices or
procedures designed to obtain a sample of
behavior
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

16. Alternate assessment
⦿ an evaluative or diagnostic procedure or process that
varies from the usual, customary or standardized way a
measurement is derived, either by virtue of some special
accommodation made to the assessed or by means of
alternative methods designed to measure the same
variable(s).
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

17. Tools of psychological
assessment
⦿ Test
⦿ Interview
⦿ Behavioral Observation
⦿ Portfolio
⦿ Case History data
⦿ Role-play Tests
⦿ Computer
⦿ Unstructured methods
Basic Principles and topics of Psychometrics
and Psychological Assessment

18. Testing Activities of
Psychologists
Clinical Psychologists - e.g. Assessment of Intelligence,
Assessment of Psychopathology
Counseling Psychologists
e.g. Career Interest Inventories, Skill Assessment
School Psychologists
e.g. Assessment of Academic progress, Readiness for School,
Social Adjustment
I/O Psychologists - e.g. Managerial potential,
Training Needs, Leadership Potential
Neuropsychologists - e.g., Assessment of Brain Damage,
neurological impairments.
Forensic Psychology - intersection between law
and psychology --needed for legal determinations
e.g. Assessment for risk, competency to stand trial, child custody

19. Characteristics of Psychological
Instruments
Standardization
Objectivity
Norms
Reliability
Validity

20. Standardization
- consistency or uniformity of
the conditions and procedures
for administering a test
Objectivity
- Obtaining the same results on
the scoring of the test
Norms
- Average or typical
performance on the test

21. Reliability
- Consistency of a
response on a test
Validity
- Measuring
accurately what the
test intended to
measure

22. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTS: ADMINISTRATION
Individual vs Group tests

23. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
ADMINISTRATION
Computer Assisted tests

24. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
ADMINISTRATIONPower tests
•Speed Test Power Test
-has fixed time limit No time limit but contain
- difficult items

25. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTS: ADMINISTRATION

26. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL
TESTS: ADMINISTRATION
•Paper & Pencil vs Performance Tests

27. Paper & Pencil Test
-Questions are in printed form
and answers are recorded on
answer sheet
Performance Test
-Performing a series of
mechanical operations than by
having them answer questions
about the nature of these
operations

28. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
Intelligent Test
Generally timed
Moderate pressure leads to best performance
Maybe verbal or non verbal
Achievement test
Measures past learning
Examples: NEAT, NSAT

29. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
Aptitude Test
Measures future learning
Potential in a Field
Main Question:
Do you have the pre-requisite
skills for a certain field?
Achievement test
Measures past learning
Examples: NEAT, NSAT

30. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
Personality Test
Measures person’s quality of
(E.M.I.A.B)
Emotional;
Motivational;
Interpersonal;
Attitudinal; and
Behavioral characteristics
Generally not timed
Non-objective in nature

31. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
Performance Test
Test that measures psychological
skills in a paper and pencil format
What is given?—-Laboratory
Task
Main Question: How efficient a
person in a given task?

32. TYPES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS:
BEHAVIOR MEASURED
• Cognitive Ability
•Interests
•Aptitudes
•Motor Ability
•Personality

33. Cognitive Ability
-Also known as Intelligence Tests;
relates mostly to educational
material
Interest Inventories
-Of greater value in vocational
guidance and counseling
Aptitudes
-Measure the skills required by a
job
Motor Ability
-Involves muscular coordination,
finger dexterity or precise eye-
hand coordination

34. Personality
-Most controversial type of test;
divided into two approaches:
Self-report Inventories
- Presents examinees with
variety of items that deal
with specific situations,
symptoms or feelings
wherein they indicate how
well each item describes
them or how much they
agree with them
Projective Techniques
- Presents an individual
with ambiguous stimuli

35. Self Report Instruments
- Participant is asked to report his or
her feelings, attitudes, beliefs,
values.
When self-report makes sense:
Self-report relies upon the test
taker’s awareness and honesty.
It is the best method to measure
internal states - things only the
person themselves can be aware of
and judge.
People are not always good judges
of their ability
Provides an estimate

36. LIMITATIONS AND DANGERS OF
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING
• Unfair rejection of applicants
•Faking test responses
•Conformity
Limitation of Psychological Assessment

37. Information About Tests
The Mental Measurement Yearbook - A guide to
all currently available psychological tests.
The MMY uses content classifications do describe tests:
• Achievement Behavior Assessment
• Developmental Education
• English & Language Fine Arts
• Foreign Languages Intelligence and Aptitude
• Mathematics Neuropsychological
• Personality Reading
• Science Sensory-Motor
• Social Studies Speech and Hearing
• Vocations

38. Psychological Testing started very Early 2000 years ago
First years of Psychology
There is no forms of psychological test
What they only do is:
1. Observation
2. Introspection (Inspection of thinking)
First need for Intelligence Tests was during 1830’s France
(School)
So how they did the first intelligence measured?
PEOPLE——-Given TASK
TASK——— MEASURE SENSORIMOTOR SKILLS

39. Sensorimotor view of
intelligence
Intelligence===SENSORY
SKILLS
G o o d S e n s o r i m o t o r
S k i l l s = = = Y O U A R E
SMART
Weak relationship between
sensorimotor capabilities
and academic grades. Not
a good predictor.

40. Verbal View of Intelligence
According to Alfred Binet:
Intelligence is reflected through a person’s LINGUISTIC
SKILLS
3 Components:
1. Decision Making Skills ( Making right decisions)
2. Comprehension Skills ( Understand)
3. Reasoning Skills (Justify)

41. ALFRED BINET
(1857-1911)
He was the Creator of
the first IQ Test, 1905
Binet aim was to
identify which children
the curriculum did not
suit so that alternative
curriculum could be
designed for them

42. Binet 1905 Scale
30 items
Used be French Ministry of
Education
In taking Binet’s 1905 test——
Mental Age
( At what age is your mind
functioning)
Example: MA=8

45. LEWIS TERMAN OF OF
STANDFORD
UNIVERSITY:
Modified the original
Binet’s 1905 scale
Language (TRANSLATE)
Added items
Standford-Binet
Intelligence Test

46. Robert Yerkes:
Group
Intelligences Test
for Soldiers
Army Alpha
(Literate)
Army Beta
( Illiterate)

47. The Army Intelligence Test
The place….The USA
The time……The Outbreak
of the great war
(WW1-1914-1918
Robert Yerkes
He is a psychologist
persuaded the US Military
to administer IQ Test to
1.75 million army recruits

48. Current
Perspectives
Factor G

49. Current
Perspectives
Multiple
Intelligences by
H. Gardner

50. What is Pseudoscience?
Pseudo scienceis
a body of knowledge, methodology,
belief or practice that is made to
appear scientific, merely by using
terms of science but which do to
adhere to the SCIENTIFIC
METHOD,
which lacks supporting evidence
or plausibility which otherwise lack
of scientific status

51. RUNES
–22 pieces of small stones or
wood each with indecipherable
symbol etched on it (Norse
alphabet) are laid down,
shuffled like dominoes and the
querent is asked to pick 13,
place the 12 in a circle
clockwise but the reading is
anti-clock

52. GEOMANCY – throwing
a handful of sand on the
ground and interpreting
the patterns it made
Numerology involves
significant numbers in an individual
life like birthdate, house address,
to predict future events or describe
the influences on a personal life

53. Phrenology the bumps of
the skull account for
specific trait like
personality and mental
abilities
Palmistry is the art of
characterization and
foretelling the future
through the study of the
palm.

54. Dr. Rhea Lowella G. Santillan, Rpm,
CSIOP
Physiognomy ( Face Reading) assessment of a
person's character or personality from his or her
outer appearance, especially the face.

55. Dr. Rhea Lowella G. Santillan, Rpm,
CSIOP
Graphology involves interpreting handwriting to judge
a person’s character and issues about their lives.

56. Western Astrology
(birth month)
Chinese Astrology
( birth year)

57. ONEIROMANCY –
dream analysis
MOLESCOPY – moles
(especially on the face)

58. Metoposcopy
reading the lines on the forehead