Nursing Education

1. STANDARDIZED TEST
Prof.(Dr.) Virendra Singh Choudhary

2. Definition
It is defined as a systematic procedure
find out the answer to the same question
with uniformity direction, time limit and
performance should observed one to one
and compare the result it is known as
standardized test.

3. Purpose of standardized test
• It is based on objective in this test can assist
common achievement of individual
performance like personality, interest,
aptitude etc.
• It is developed by professional experts and
it provides reliability and validity etc.
• It is based on individual capacity.

4. Characteristics of standardized test
• It should be fixed
• It is specific direction for administering and
scoring the test.
• It consists of standardized content and
procedure.
• It provides standardized frame of references
determining individual performance.

5. Types of standardized test
• Achievement test
• Intelligence test
• Personality test
• Aptitude test
• Prognostic test

6. Standardized test construction
• It is constructed by professional /experts.
• It is based on objective and content.
• Selection of item will be done very carefully
and validity and reliability should be
fulfilled.
• Procedure of administration should be
standardized
• Test should be clear direction
• Providing scoring key.

7. Standardized test
• it deals with quality measurement with
validated question –standardized tools are
• Test of intelligence
• Aptitude
• Interest
• Personality
• Achievement
• Socioeconomic status scale
• Test for special mental and physical abilities

8. Personality test

9. CONTI….
• Personality is the total quality of an individual’s
behaviour as it is shown in this habits of thinking
,in his attitude ,interest ,his manner of acting and
his personal philosophy of life.
• There are three basic factors or variables which
have to be considered in describing and analysing
the personality.
• The internal aspects of the individual: the basic
drives, the physiological system, glands &
inherently physical features.

10. CONTI….
• The social and material stimuli to the individual :
these modify and direct individual impulses and
needs. It includes the influence of the family and
other groups.
• The reactions or behaviour or conduct which
results from the interaction of the individual and
the stimuli.
• According to Dunn, personality means once inner
or outer circumstances suitable with his
environment:
• Personality = inner +outer
circumstances/environment

11. Personality assessment
• Where one can see how one individual behave in
actual life situation. E.g. observation technique,
situation technique –any assignments
• Where one can find out what an individual says
about him. e.g. subject –autobiography, interview
• Technique by which one can find out what others
say about the individual whose personality is
under assessment. E.g. case history, biography,
rating scale, sociometry .

12. CONTI….
• Techniques by which one can find how an
individual reacts to an imaginative situation
involving any events e.g. projective test
• Technique by which one can determining same
personality variables in terms of physiological
response by measuring instruments e.g. lie
detection

13. Observation methods:
INTERVIEW
a) Structured
b) Unstructured
 It is most popular method
 Appearance ,bearing ,speech can be noticed.
 To evaluate for employment and for education as
well as for identifying personality trait.
 Body languages to be observed i.e. posture,
movement of hands, facial express.

14. QUESTIONNAIRE
• Written method of merge personality
• Very easily checked & scored
• Goode & Hatt developed questionnaire ,related to
personality which consists of series of items by
using a form which the respondent responses by
himself
• It is useful for assessing both qualitative and
quantitative information

15. PERSONALITY INVENTORIES
• Minnesota multiple personality inventory
(MMPI):
• MMPI- Minnesota multiphase personality
• Inventory (MMPI,MMPI-A)
• MMPI-original MMPI-1993
• MMPIA: adolescent from.

16. PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUE
• What is inside a person rather than what can be
seen in person behaviour?
• To find out more about a person’s feelings,
unconsciousness desire and inner thoughts.
• -Rorschach ink blot test was the first projective
test and is still widely used.

17. Rorschach ink blot test
• Swiss psychologist –Herman Rorschach (1920)
• It consist of 10 standardized ink blots
• 10 different kinds of ink blot which must be
described by the person taking the test
• It vary in colour ,shading ,form and complexity
• These test make use of people tendencies to make
up stories.
• E.g. People sees butter flies, dancing girls etc.
• RIBT : Response and differ from person to person
based on individuals personal experience.

18. Thematic appreciation test
• In 1938, Henry A Murray was first used
‘projection’in relation to personality assessment
technique. Through this technique, the covert or
unconciousess behaviour E.g the repressed feeling
,desires ,hopes ,ambitious ,fear etc, of an individual
will be studied.
• In this technique unstructured stimuli are provided
to the subject and he is asked to structure them in
any way he likes,he unconsciously projects his
w=own views,with that a clue has been provided to
estimate the total personality
• Perceiving certain pictures in a thematic manner. it
suits for adolescents & adults.

19. Conti….
• Projective test still used in clinical psychology
• TAT consists of three sets of pictures, one set is used with
both man and woman and second set only for men & third
only for women
• Believed that he would project his own experience
biographical date ,major conflicts, interest and problem
into his description of pictures.
• During testing a person is shown each sketch asked to
make story about people repeated several times & asked to
collaborators.
• Focus on how people feel ,how they interact what events
led up to the incidents depicted in the sketech and how
story will end.

20. Areas of TAT
• Family relationship
• Motivation, inner fantasies
• Level of aspiration
• Feeling of sex, urge
• Social relationship

21. Uses
• Extensively used
• Limited empirical
• Poor reliability
• When – used primarily for the narratives these
that patient describe
• Sentence completion test : it is a simple test to
assess the subject regarding inner concepts of
objects or environment.
• Subject complete the sentence own desire words-
• E.g. I like –what problem with me? My mother
always?

22. Advantages
• Can apply in literate
• Identify that wishes, desire and inner concepts
• Able to express that own words
• Draw test :
• One of the art of test no limitation for the subject express
their ideas. It is like painting ,drawing and psychodrama.
• -it is a best test to identify individual creativeness e.g. tell
to the person draw a woman , man, house or tree etc.
• From the picture can identify the size of the picture quality
of the picture ,colouring of picture own their emotional
excitement

23. Word association test :WAT
• When the subject gives a quick response
word, he is taken unaware of and his
unconscious process directs his association.
• -Here the subject has to answer as quickly
as possible with the first word which comes
to his mind when he is given a stimulus
word.

24. Socioeconomic status scale
• it is used to identify economic status in society. It
us used mainly to implementation of national
health program.
• Kuppuswamy, socioeconomic status scale, the
variety of method classified the population and
provide appropriate information by the national
program.
• -he studied to assist the consumer prices index for
industrial workers and the status of the society.
• -Based on this study he created different type of
scale which is based on 3 classification the
following heading –education, occupation and