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Unit 6: Testing, Assessment, and Diagnosis in Counselling (Tests and…

- - - - Decide if clients’ needs are within their range of expertise
      - Better understand clients
      - Determine which counselling methods
      - Predict the future performance of CL in some areas
      - Stimulate clients consider new interests
      - Evaluate outcome of counselling
  - - - CL become dependent on CCC and test
    - - CCC view CL with prejudice
    - - Test results invalid and unreliable
- - - - Way room is prepared
      - Way instructions given to test takers
  - - - Descriptive
        
        Current status of test taker
      - Genetic
        
        How test taker got to be the way he is
      - Predictive
        
        Forecasting future
      - Evaluative
        
        Recommendations by interpreter
    - - CL may not understand meaning of numbers + diagrams
      - CL may feel as uninformed as before taking test
      - CCC giving test may not be well educated about the test
      - CCC may think test results give us whole picture about CL
- - - - Intelligence
        
        School work / reasoning + verbal ability
        
        4 criticisms
        
        Person’s learning, not ability to learn
        
        Don't measure creative, practical, emotional and social talent
        
        Educational /socialization opportunities, not real intellect. abilities
        
        Overemphasize mental speed + psychomotor speed
      - Aptitude
        
        Potential, with training and experience
    - - Interest inventory:
        Interest in, or preference for, some activities
      - Ex: Strong Interest Inventory
      - Theory of career development (Holland):
        6 types of people and environment
        RIASEC
        
        R: Realistic
        
        I : Investigative
        
        A : Artistic
        
        S : Social
        
        E : Enterprising
        
        C : Conventional
    - - Ex: MBTI
      - Reveal aspects of one's character
      - 2 kinds:
        
        Objective
        
        Projective
    - - Extent of development of a knowledge or skill
      - 2 types:
        
        Teacher-made
        
        Standardized