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COUN 577: Assessment in Counseling
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
What is assessment?
✓ A. It is an objective and standardized measure of a sample of behavior
✓ B. A systemic procedures for observing "samples" of behavior and using
numerical scales and/or fixed categories to define it.
Bias
✓ prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with
another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
Assessment vs. Test
✓ Assessment: defines the process that integrates test information with
information from other sources.
✓
✓ Test:defines an individual instrument in which the focus is on information and/or
evaluation; scales, checklists, inventories, formal/informal assessments,
summative assessments
Why is assessment important for counselors?
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✓ 1. Professional expectations that all counselors have training and knowledge in
assessment and in the appropriate use of assessment instruments and
techniques.
✓ 2. you will work with a multidisciplinary team (i.e. psychologists, SLP, APE, etc.)
to assist you in making decisions.
✓ 3. Assessing the client's problem
✓ 4.Conceptualizing and defining the client's problem(s)
✓ 5.Selecting and implementing effective treatment
✓ 6.Evaluating the counseling
The responsible counselor
✓ A. Use multiple sources of data/ gather multiple sources of information
✓ B. Stay abreast of assessment issues
✓ C. Consult with professionals on interpretations
✓ D. Know your limits of your own assessment competency—never administer a
testing instrument you are not trained in.
Types of Assessment Tools
✓ A. Standardized/Nonstandardized
✓ B. Individual/Group—relates primarily to how the test is administered.
✓ C. Objective/Subjective
✓ D. Verbal/Nonverbal (Non Language)
✓ E. Speed/Power
✓ F. Cognitive/Affective
Standardized/Nonstandardized:
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✓ Standardized: Fixed instructions for administering and scoring the instrument,
Content must remain constant and developed in accordance with professional
standards, and Administered to an appropriate representative sample
✓
✓ Nonstandardized: do not meet these guidelines and therefore may not provide
the systemic measure of behavior that standardized instruments provide.
Objective/Subjective
✓ objective: includes predetermined methods for scoring the assessment, and the
counselor is not required to make any judgements (ie summative assessment)
✓
✓ subjective: requires the counselor to make a professional judgment in scoring
the assessment (ie formative assessment)
Speed/Power
✓ Speed: examines the number of items completed in a specified period of time
✓
✓ Power: the items in the examination vary in difficulty, with more credit given for
more difficult items
Cognitive/Affective
✓ Cognitive: Assess cognition: thought, perceiving, processing, concrete and
abstract thinking, remembering. (ie intelligence, achievement, and aptitude
tests)
✓
✓ Affective: assess interest, attitudes, values, motives, temperaments, and
noncognitive aspects of personality. (ie MMPI-2 , projective techniques)
Four basic types of measurement scales:
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COUN 577: Assessment in Counseling
Questions and Correct Verified Answers
What is assessment?
✓ A. It is an objective and standardized measure of a sample of behavior
✓ B. A systemic procedures for observing "samples" of behavior and using
numerical scales and/or fixed categories to define it.
Bias
✓ prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with
another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
Assessment vs. Test
✓ Assessment: defines the process that integrates test information with
information from other sources.
✓
✓ Test:defines an individual instrument in which the focus is on information and/or
evaluation; scales, checklists, inventories, formal/informal assessments,
summative assessments
Why is assessment important for counselors?
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ 1. Professional expectations that all counselors have training and knowledge in
assessment and in the appropriate use of assessment instruments and
techniques.
✓ 2. you will work with a multidisciplinary team (i.e. psychologists, SLP, APE, etc.)
to assist you in making decisions.
✓ 3. Assessing the client's problem
✓ 4.Conceptualizing and defining the client's problem(s)
✓ 5.Selecting and implementing effective treatment
✓ 6.Evaluating the counseling
The responsible counselor
✓ A. Use multiple sources of data/ gather multiple sources of information
✓ B. Stay abreast of assessment issues
✓ C. Consult with professionals on interpretations
✓ D. Know your limits of your own assessment competency—never administer a
testing instrument you are not trained in.
Types of Assessment Tools
✓ A. Standardized/Nonstandardized
✓ B. Individual/Group—relates primarily to how the test is administered.
✓ C. Objective/Subjective
✓ D. Verbal/Nonverbal (Non Language)
✓ E. Speed/Power
✓ F. Cognitive/Affective
Standardized/Nonstandardized:
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, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ Standardized: Fixed instructions for administering and scoring the instrument,
Content must remain constant and developed in accordance with professional
standards, and Administered to an appropriate representative sample
✓
✓ Nonstandardized: do not meet these guidelines and therefore may not provide
the systemic measure of behavior that standardized instruments provide.
Objective/Subjective
✓ objective: includes predetermined methods for scoring the assessment, and the
counselor is not required to make any judgements (ie summative assessment)
✓
✓ subjective: requires the counselor to make a professional judgment in scoring
the assessment (ie formative assessment)
Speed/Power
✓ Speed: examines the number of items completed in a specified period of time
✓
✓ Power: the items in the examination vary in difficulty, with more credit given for
more difficult items
Cognitive/Affective
✓ Cognitive: Assess cognition: thought, perceiving, processing, concrete and
abstract thinking, remembering. (ie intelligence, achievement, and aptitude
tests)
✓
✓ Affective: assess interest, attitudes, values, motives, temperaments, and
noncognitive aspects of personality. (ie MMPI-2 , projective techniques)
Four basic types of measurement scales:
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