The Analysis of the Psychological Tests Using In Educational Institutions According To the Testing Standards

Journal of Measurement and Evaluation in Education and Psychology

关键词: Psychological tests;    APA standards for educational and psychological testing;    ITC test adaptation standards;   

DOI  :  10.21031/epod.365141

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this research is to analyze four psychological tests which are frequently used in the Guidance and Research Centers and in the guidance services of the schools according to the standards for educational and psychological testing of APA (American Psychological Association) and test adaption standards of ITC (International Testing Commission). The tests were determined based on the goal- oriented sample selecting method and were selected from the most frequently used psychological tests in Guidance and Research Centers and school’s guidance centers. These tests are: Scale of Academic Self-Concept (Akademik Benlik Kavramı Ölçeği-ABKÖ), Evaluation of Early Childhood Development Tool (Gazi Erken Çocukluk Gelişimi Değerlendirme Aracı-GEÇDA), Primary Mental Abilities 7-11 (TKT 7-11), and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Revised Form (WISC-R). In this research, the chapters related to the validity, reliability and test development and revision of “Standards For Educational And Psychological Testing” (APA, 1999) and the adaptation standards developed by ITC were translated into Turkish and a checklist was created by using these documents. The checklist has got two forms as short and long form. The tests were analyzed according to the short form of the checklist by researcher. In order to examine the reliability of these analyses, the analyses were repeated in three weeks’ time. Data of these analyses were exported to the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 and descriptive analysis was perfomed. As a result of this research, the meeting levels of the psychological tests to the test standards in the checklist and the features of the tests which should be improved according to the validity, reliability, test development and revision and test adaptation were determined. In conclusion, the standards analyzed have not been met satisfactorily by ABKÖ and GEÇDA, and according to the analyses of the realibility of ABKÖ, it has been found that more relibility analyses should be done for ABKÖ. As for the results that obtained for the adapted tests, it has been found that most of the adaptation standards have been met for WISC-R and there are many standards that have not been met by for Primary Mental Abilities 7-11.

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