Posted: December 8th, 2016

What factors do you think might have positively and negatively affected your performance on this test?

If you submit this assignment, which is purely optional, it will count for 15 percent of your final grade. If you do well on this assignment, it may raise your grade but if you do poorly on it, it may lower your final grade, so think seriously about this issue!

Select a standardized test you have taken over the last five years. Discuss these issues:

1. How did you prepare for the test, if at all? Did this preparation prove to be useful? In what ways? In retrospect, could you have prepared for the test in a more effective way? How? How do you know this approach might have been better?

2. How did you expect to do on this test? How did you actually do on it?

3. What factors do you think might have positively and negatively affected your performance on this test?

4. What influence, if any, did this test have on your subsequent life?

5. Briefly summarize what we know about the reliability and validity of this test. If possible,

to do this consult the Mental Measurements Yearbook (unfortunately not in Healey Library).

6. Do your own individual experiences with this test support or contradict empirical research on the reliability and validity of this test? In what specific ways? How can you account for this match or mismatch?

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