Standardized tests

The use of psychological tests has been severely criticized and also challenged many times in the court of law. Still, it is going on increasing rather than decreasing, particularly in schools.

For most counselors, tests are the basic assessment device to know their clients. A psychological test (or simply, test) is defined as “essentially an objective and standardized measure of a sample of behavior” (Anastasi & Urbina, 1997).

Standardization means uniformity in the procedure of administration and scoring the test. Testi conditions and instructions should be the same for all test takers.

Objective means administration; scoring and interpretation of scores are free from the subjective judgment of the examiner.

That means whoever may be the examiner, the test taker, ideally, should obtain the same score. The scores on a test represent the quantity of the particular behavior measured by that test. 

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