EVAL FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is assessment?
A- Formalized testing
B- Mental health diagnosis
C- Gathering info to form a holistic view of clients
D- Type of treatment approach - Answers - C- Gathering info to form a holistic view of
clients
Compared to appraisal and evaluation, assessment is considered a _____ activity.
A- Objective
B- Subjective
C- Complex
D- Overvalued - Answers - A- objective
What is the purpose of a counselor conducting an assessment of their client?
A- To screen and provide a diagnosis
B- Plan treatment goals
C- Evaluated progress
D- All of the above - Answers - D- all of the above
What is an intelligence quotient?
A- Ratio of a person's mental age and chronological age.
B- Ratio of a person's dev age and chronological age
C- Ration of mental age and academic achievement grade level
D- Ratio of a person's chronological age and academic achievement level - Answers -
A- ratio of a person's mental age and chronological age
When conducting an assessment, data should be collected from _____ sources.
A- Multiple
B- Few
C- 5-7
D- 1-2 - Answers - A- multiple
Why are standard scores useful?
A- Standard scores are easier to calculate
B- Comparisons can be made with standard scores
C- Progress can be monitored with standard scores
D- Diagnosis can be made with standard scores - Answers - B- comparisons can be
made with standard scores
The determine a client's _____, the counselor took the client's Z-score and multiplied it
by 10 and then added 50.
A- Percentile
B- Stanine
, C- T-score
M-score - Answers - C- T score
The _____ of an instrument is one of the most important characteristics a counselor
should examine before choosing to use a particular instrument or approach.
A- Usefulness
B- Reliability
C- Statistics
D- Cultural sensitivity - Answers - B- reliability
Why is it important for test administrators to reduce the amount of error in the testing
process with clients?
A- To reduce the client's stress during the testing process
B- To improve the reliability of a client's test scores
C- To completely eliminate error from the client's total test score - Answers - B- to
improve the reliability of a client's test scores
Several police cars and fire trucks drove past the clinic where 7-year-old Marcus was
taking an IQ test. The loud sirens startled Marcus and he became increasingly
concerned that the clinic was on fire. He asked the counselor several times if his
mother, who was in the waiting room, was safe and how much longer the testing was
going to take. Due to this, the counselor allowed Marcus to take some breaks during
testing to check on his mother in the waiting room. This is this an example of?
A- Time sampling error
B- Test taker variables
C- Test administration error
D- Content sampling error - Answers - C- test admin error
Susan is a counselor who is going to administer a questionnaire to her client to assess
for symptoms of anxiety. As Susan is reviewing which anxiety questionnaire to
administer, she notices several questions on one questionnaire that assessed for
hallucinations and other psychotic features, distorted thinking, and paranoia. Assuming
that the questionnaire is to be measuring only anxiety symptoms, this questionnaire
would be considered to have.
A- Low alternate forms reliability
B- Low inter-rater reliability
C- Low internal consistency
D- High discriminate reliability - Answers - C- low internal consistency
____ is defined as a set of tools and techniques used for describing, organizing, and
interpreting info.
A- Graphing
B- Calculating
C- Measuring
D- Statistics - Answers - D- statistics
What is assessment?
A- Formalized testing
B- Mental health diagnosis
C- Gathering info to form a holistic view of clients
D- Type of treatment approach - Answers - C- Gathering info to form a holistic view of
clients
Compared to appraisal and evaluation, assessment is considered a _____ activity.
A- Objective
B- Subjective
C- Complex
D- Overvalued - Answers - A- objective
What is the purpose of a counselor conducting an assessment of their client?
A- To screen and provide a diagnosis
B- Plan treatment goals
C- Evaluated progress
D- All of the above - Answers - D- all of the above
What is an intelligence quotient?
A- Ratio of a person's mental age and chronological age.
B- Ratio of a person's dev age and chronological age
C- Ration of mental age and academic achievement grade level
D- Ratio of a person's chronological age and academic achievement level - Answers -
A- ratio of a person's mental age and chronological age
When conducting an assessment, data should be collected from _____ sources.
A- Multiple
B- Few
C- 5-7
D- 1-2 - Answers - A- multiple
Why are standard scores useful?
A- Standard scores are easier to calculate
B- Comparisons can be made with standard scores
C- Progress can be monitored with standard scores
D- Diagnosis can be made with standard scores - Answers - B- comparisons can be
made with standard scores
The determine a client's _____, the counselor took the client's Z-score and multiplied it
by 10 and then added 50.
A- Percentile
B- Stanine
, C- T-score
M-score - Answers - C- T score
The _____ of an instrument is one of the most important characteristics a counselor
should examine before choosing to use a particular instrument or approach.
A- Usefulness
B- Reliability
C- Statistics
D- Cultural sensitivity - Answers - B- reliability
Why is it important for test administrators to reduce the amount of error in the testing
process with clients?
A- To reduce the client's stress during the testing process
B- To improve the reliability of a client's test scores
C- To completely eliminate error from the client's total test score - Answers - B- to
improve the reliability of a client's test scores
Several police cars and fire trucks drove past the clinic where 7-year-old Marcus was
taking an IQ test. The loud sirens startled Marcus and he became increasingly
concerned that the clinic was on fire. He asked the counselor several times if his
mother, who was in the waiting room, was safe and how much longer the testing was
going to take. Due to this, the counselor allowed Marcus to take some breaks during
testing to check on his mother in the waiting room. This is this an example of?
A- Time sampling error
B- Test taker variables
C- Test administration error
D- Content sampling error - Answers - C- test admin error
Susan is a counselor who is going to administer a questionnaire to her client to assess
for symptoms of anxiety. As Susan is reviewing which anxiety questionnaire to
administer, she notices several questions on one questionnaire that assessed for
hallucinations and other psychotic features, distorted thinking, and paranoia. Assuming
that the questionnaire is to be measuring only anxiety symptoms, this questionnaire
would be considered to have.
A- Low alternate forms reliability
B- Low inter-rater reliability
C- Low internal consistency
D- High discriminate reliability - Answers - C- low internal consistency
____ is defined as a set of tools and techniques used for describing, organizing, and
interpreting info.
A- Graphing
B- Calculating
C- Measuring
D- Statistics - Answers - D- statistics
