Factors affecting assessment results
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Factors affecting assessment results
- 1. Factors affecting assessment results By Judy Janse van Rensburg
- 2. Assessment results in context • Physical bodily structures and functions Biological • Abilities • Emotions • Personal dispositions Intrapsychic • Environment, people • Home and work • Cultural and sociopolitical factors Social • Test administration Methodological
- 3. Biological Age • Chronological (youth/elderly) • Mental age Physical impairments • Hearing • Sight • Neurological • Chronic fatigue, meningitis • Menopause • HIV/AIDS (later stages) • Speech • Motor impairments • Sleep deprivation Medication • Over the counter drugs for allergies • Antidepressants • Side effects of other medication
- 4. Intrapsychic Transient • Every day events • Car accident • Recent birth • Death in the family • Jobloss/retrenchment • Sick child • Post Traumatic Stress due to violence/crime Psychopathology • Anorexia • Anxiety • Clinical depression (memory) • Various as listed in DSM V
- 5. Social Schooling • Quality of education Language • Home language • Translations • Availability of concepts in other languages Culture • Fairness • Validation studies • Projective measures • Acculturation Environment • Distal – wider • Proximal - immediate
- 6. Social/Environmental (cont.) Home • Child rearing practises • Overcrowding • Household structure Socio- economic status (SES) • Education • Occupation • Income • Poverty Urbanization • Richer environment • High parental education
- 7. Social Schooling • Quality of education Language • Home language • Translations • Availability of concepts in other languages Culture • Fairness • Validation studies • Projective measures • Acculturation Environment • Distal – wider • Proximal – immediate Test wiseness
- 8. Methodological Test admin and standardized procedures • Follow the instructions in the manual precisely Interpreting patterns • Investigate all available info • SEM Influence of assessment practitioner • Be well prepared • Know the battery and the instructions • Establish rapport Status of test taker • Anxiety • Not motivated • Faking bad • Social desirability
- 9. Bibliography • Foxcroft,C. &Roodt, G. 2006. An introduction to psychological assessment in the South African context.