ABS300 Week 3 Discussion, Application of Intelligent Assessment

ABS 300 Week 3 Discussion Client- Career Professional Painter- residential and commercial I want to make a personal comment here. I think it is funny that I got Professional Painter as my client; my boys own their own Painting business, called Saints of Paint. I had to laugh for a minute and also think about a lot of things they go through with their company. I know from talking with my sons that painters work hard and need to have many skills. Although I will not be talking about all of them, I will touch on many of the important ones to test with the WAIS-IV. A painter needs good visual/spatial, color perception, and it is important that they can relay ideas through visualization. Painting requires many skills, and it is based on observations as well as technique. It is important that painters have great balance or perception of learning balance techniques as they are constantly climbing up and down ladders and balance on different areas on the house grab little areas that can sometimes be unreachable. The WAIS-IV is an intelligence test used to measure the cognitive ability in adults. As our textbook explains "The measurement of intelligence entails sampling an examinee’s performance on different types of tests and task as a function of developmental level" (Cohen, Swerdlik, & Sturman, 2018, p.285). The tests I will be using for this inpatient client to evaluate are the subtests, Coding, Visual Puzzles, and Arithmetic. After studying the different subtests, it was difficult to choose only three. I will, to the best of my ability, explain all three and why I chose them. Arithmetic is a subset of the Working Memory Index When I was reading about arithmetic reasoning at first, I was, I was thinking about math. As I began to read more about it, what caught my attention about using this subtest was that it stated that it was a sign of mental alertness. I also found it interesting that no paper or pencil is used during this test. As I evaluate this client to see if he can go back to work, mental alertness would be of great importance. We do not have the full story of the client, and I do not know what kind of injury he had, but I do know that painters have to climb ladders and need to be alert, as well as need to have critical thinking abilities. The arithmetic subtest would measure my client estimation abilities, critical thinking, mental control of number activities, and working memory (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2012). The test will measure a person's extent to receive and keep data in quick mindfulness then provide a psychological procedure on that data. Painters also need good math skills as they have to do a lot of different measurements and techniques. My son had told me many stories of problems that had occurred when they did not measure the right amount of paint needed for a building. Coding is a subtest of Processing Speed. Coding would help evaluate my client's visual abilities as well as motor speed. This subtest gives the client a time limit to record a relationship between various images and numbers. This subtest is part of the processing speed index, and it reflects the person's capacity to process straightforward or routine visual data rapidly and proficiently. This subtest tests an individual's psychomotor speed, the capability to assimilate new material, visual engine speed, and drive for achievements (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2012). Visual/spatial, understanding colors, ability to reproduce a mental vision, and conveying ideas through a visual is important. Painting is a technique that is based on observations and is skilled-based. Details are essential for painters, such as crisp, clean edges, even coats, and well-adhered layers. A small error can alter the look of the room or building. The coding subtest is a very popular test. However, the concern I have about this test is that it can be biased towards an older individual. It is dependent on visual acuity, motor coordination, and speed. Someone who is older may not do as well on this test as sometimes the older we get, the harder it is to have that same spend and coordination as the younger generation. I know they did make some changes to this test but I am not understanding how or if this made a difference. Visual Puzzles is a subtest of the Perpetual Thinking Index The visual puzzles subtest will help measure my client's ability to think with visual examples. It is designed to measure a person's visual handlings abilities, fluid thinking aptitudes, consideration with regards to subtleties (Lichtenberger & Kaufman,2012). It quantifies a person's nonverbal thinking aptitudes and takes advantage of reasoning that is progressively fluid and requires visual perceptual capacities. This subtest is timed, and clients need to complete different puzzles, which require them to not only think quickly but have fast responses. Also they, are required to look at a puzzle that is completed and then look at different responses about the puzzle and select the one that will recreate the puzzle. The Visual puzzles with help evaluate my clients ability a strong sense of what looks good. Painter must think of the job site as a work of art. Visual puzzles can help me see how fast my client can recognize color schemes and instructions as well create new color schemes. This is an important aspect of a painters job. I noticed that this test had had many modifications over the years, and the newer version of the WAIS-IV can be used for everyone, even if English is not their first language or if they have less than high school education. The new tests have been changed and developed to address many of the weaknesses of the past. Some of the tests do require verbal skills, math skills, and general understanding questions. The different subtest has almost no verbal substance. It integrates assignments that require understanding the connection between articles and control of other materials, such as collecting squares, masterminding pictures to design a story, and finishing incomplete pictures. Block design, picture concepts, and matrix reasoning are three different subtests that can be done for someone's motor skills as well. Examiners using WAIS-IV can combine the consequences of the subtest in a variety of ways to figure a general IQ just as list scores that mirror a person's psychological preparing speed, memory capacity, perceptual aptitudes, and understanding verbal data (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2012). I believe that the Standardized test is just a standard measure of abilities. People learn things differently, and it should not be used to make some feel inferior or less than anyone else. Standardized tests provide a common standard to allow a comparison between different people. Standardized tests may not be reliable for examining things such as teamwork or creativity. But standardized tests are useful for examining knowledge and comprehension. Although a group of people may all see the same schedule, do the same work, read the same things, they still may understand it differently, and learn at different paces. However, many Standardized tests have helped people become successful by being validated by experts. Most of these tests are well-written and say something meaningful about a population. These tests are reliable and they can help us determine the level of an individuals skill set. References Cohen, R. J., Swerdlik, M. E., & Sturman, E. D. (2018). Psychological testing and assessment: An introduction to tests and measurement (9th ed.). Retrieved from Lichtenberger, E. O., & Kaufman, A. S. (2013). Essentials of WAIS-IV assessment. [electronic resource] (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. Three subtests from the WAIS-IV that I would choose were the:1.) Visual Puzzles is a subtest which makes individuals are required to look at a puzzle that is completed and then look at different responses about the puzzle and select the one that will recreate the puzzle. This subtest is a piece of the perceptual thinking index and mirrors a person's capacity to decipher, compose and think with visual data precisely. It quantifies a person's nonverbal thinking aptitudes and takes advantage of reasoning that is progressively fluid and requires visual perceptual capacities (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2012). This subtest measures a person's visual handling abilities, consideration regarding subtleties, thinking with visual examples, and fluid thinking aptitudes.2.) Arithmetic is a subtest that consists of 22 times arithmetic problems that are solved by an individual without them using a pencil or paper. This subtest is a part of the working memory subtests and measures the individual's ability of estimation abilities, critical thinking aptitudes, mental control of number activities, and working memory (Lichtenberger & Kaufman, 2012). verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, and processing speed scales. Verbal comprehension we want to be sure that outpatient has the cognitive skills in order to review and customize colors properly for projects. For our perceptual reasoning I would use visual puzzles. Visual puzzles allow us to see how fast our patient can recognize color schemes and instructions as well create new color schemes. T