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Assessment correct answers A broad array of evaluative procedures that yield information about a person What are examples of assessments? correct answers Personality tests (objective and projective), clinical interviews, achievement tests, aptitude tests Tests correct answers Tests are a subset of assessment techniques that yield scores based on the gathering of collective data (e.g., finding the sum of correct items on a multiple-choice exam) When did the history of modern assessment begin? correct answers Beginning of the 20th C What are ancient examples of assessment? correct answers 1. God assessing Issac 2. Chinese government assessed people for fitness to work in gov't populations 3.Writings from Plato indicate that the Greeks assessed both the intellectual and physical ability of men when screening for state service Why were assessments originally developed? correct answers Initially developed for physicians and philosophers to mostly better understand people's cognitive questioning Who is Jean Esquirol? correct answers Jean Esquirol assessed how language ability relates to intelligence in persons with developmental disabilities, his focus on language ability is often seen as the beginning of what later became known as the assessment of " verbal IQ." Who is Edouard Sequen? correct answers Mans suggested that intellectual deficits in children were stronger with physiological deficits (e.g. swinging walk, busy hands automatically, meaningless look, limited or repetitive speech) What did Edouard Sequin develop? correct answers Seguin developed the form board Why did Sequin create the form board? correct answers Seguin developed the form board to increase his patients' motor control and sensory discrimination and to compare children and individuals with severe intellectual deficits to average children at different age groups Why is the foam board considered significant? correct answers Considered by some to be the forerunner of performance IQ measures as form boards are still used for those measures What were scientists in the 1800's engrossed in? correct answers Scientists in the mid-1800s became engrossed in trying to understand the development of the human species What did Sir Francis Galton (Darwin's cousin) hypothesize? correct answers people inherited physical and mental characteristics--- thought that some who inherited physical traits such as reaction time and stronger grip strength may be related to superior intellectual ability ---- his research spurred the correlation coefficient