PS102 Lecture Notes - Socioeconomic Status, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Malnutrition
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Standardization refers to the fact that when you give a test, the questions must given all in the same manner of instructions and environment; uniform testing procedures and scoring based on a uniform set of questions. Ex, intelligence testing: norms are able to run tests on large populations that are representative of the total population in order to compare individuals, percentiles the percent of people who achieve at or below your score. The score they give you does not mean that you received that mark on the test. Reliability does the test measure the same concept consistently: test-retest talks about whether the test gives you the same score at one time or at a different time. General (g factor: fluid reasoning, memory, information processing. Specific: thurstone"s primary mental abilities word fluency, verbal comprehension, math, reasoning, gardner"s 8 intelligences intelligence in: music, spacial, bodily or kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal, emotional intelligence.
