Locate and summarize a minimum of two articles related to the technical qualities for each of three previously selected

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Locate and summarize a minimum of two articles related to the technical qualities for each of three previously selected tests.

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Introduction

Note: Synthesizing the evaluation of test technical quality requires specific steps that must be carried out in a certain order. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Professionals in the field must be able to administer and interpret tests to establish a diagnosis and determine a treatment plan. Before a test is selected, test users must be knowledgeable of the technical quality (reliability and validity) of the tests they use. Test users should only use instruments with adequate reliability and validity.

In this assessment, you will complete a deeper analysis of the technical quality of your three selected tests from Assessment 1 by focusing on reliability and validity evidence. To complete this assessment, you will draw upon your knowledge about psychometrics in general and reliability and validity in particular.

Preparation

Download the Assessment 2 Template: Evaluation of Technical Quality [DOCX] and use it as the basis of your assessment. The template contains instructions to guide you through each element of the assessment.

For this assessment, you will conduct a deeper analysis of the technical quality of the three tests you selected for Assessment 1.

Instructions

For Assessment 1, you selected three standardized tests from one category that have relevance to your specialization or a related profession. Assessment 1 focused on the purpose, contents and constructs assessed, norms, and required training of psychological tests. For this assessment, you will complete a deeper analysis of the technical quality of your three selected tests by focusing on reliability and validity evidence. To complete this assessment, you will draw upon your knowledge about psychometrics in general and reliability and validity in particular. You are encouraged to use the PSY-FP7610 – Tests and Measurements Library Guide to assist your search.

For each article:

List the APA reference for each journal article (a minimum of six).

Identify if the article addresses reliability or validity.

Discuss if the article addresses sources of error variance, reliability estimates, evidence of validity, or bias and fairness.

Identify the specific type of reliability or validity (for example, test-retest reliability, predictive validity, etc.).

Identify the overall results of the research, including any psychometric or statistical outcome.

Guidelines for Selecting the Literature

Use the most current sources you can find. You may cite older sources if they are classics, if you want to show the chronology of something, or if you have another good reason (i.e., the test was published more than eight years ago) If you choose to use older sources, you will need to explain why. Use current, peer-reviewed journal articles for more current tests. Do not use sources without an author or a publication date. Do not use quotes; use only your own words. Evaluate whether the results support the use of your test as appropriate for your field and populations to be served.

Note: The articles you need to complete this assessment should be available as part of the library collection. In future courses, you may use the Capella library’s Interlibrary Loan service to obtain articles outside of the collection, but you should not have to use the service for this course. In the event that you cannot find articles covering a newer test edition, please refer to the List of Tests by Type [DOCX]. Note which tests have been designated as acceptable for searching prior test editions.

Note: Be sure to use the Assessment 2 Template: Evaluation of Technical Quality [DOCX].

Literature Question

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Discussion Question

This week’s focus is quantitative research methods and how researchers use them to explain the outcome(s) of their study. Please post something to the discussion board related to the content covered this week.

Note: Do not create your post as a reply to the pinned post. Instead, use Yellowdig’s Create option to create a new post.

Here are some ideas for your post to get you started:

Topic: Navigating Change in Healthcare Environments

Consider a research topic of your choice that could be studied quantitatively. Try creating a research hypothesis and share what variables you might include in your study. What things might you need to consider when selecting participants for your study?

What research question most interests you in your field or line of work? Briefly, how might you utilize quantitative methods to approach a study on that topic?

After completing the readings for this week, share which reading most interested you or you felt was most immediately relevant to your own professional or academic career.

Response Guidelines

  • As you respond to your classmates, share your experiences and anecdotal feedback regarding their posts. How have your personal experiences resonated with their ideas? What can you add to their ideas, building upon the connections you have made to the material so far? Consider exploring the features of Yellowdig, such as your ability to embed videos and pictures, create polls and videos, use hashtags, love or like a post, and so on.
  • Overview Assignment
  • This assignment focuses on methodology and the method you might use to address your topic and questions, keeping in mind that the questions should guide the method and that particular questions lend themselves to particular methods. As you find additional library articles related to your topic, focus on the methodology in use: do you see alignment among the problem, questions, and the methods chosen? Why or why not? If you had conducted this study, would you have gone about it in the same way?

Instructions

Using 10 additional articles on your potential topic, include the following in your short MS Word document:

Summarize the articles paying particular attention to the methodology used.

What was the identified problem?

What questions were asked?

What method or methods were used?

Did the methods align with the problem and questions?

  • What were the outcomes of the study?

Would you have conducted this study in the same way? Why or why not?

  • Identify ethical issues or concerns related to the topic and/or theory.
  • As a scholar-practitioner, apply conventions of voice, academic tone, and discipline-specific language.
  • Additional Requirements

Create a professional development PowerPoint presentation on how theories, principles, and evidence

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Create a professional development PowerPoint presentation on how theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices related to memory models and processes; knowledge representation, organization, and manipulation; and language acquisition and competency can be applied in the context of a professional specialization.

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Introduction

As a professional psychologist, you will need to review theory and research and use it as the basis to develop best practices. For this assessment, you will focus on the following topics:

  • Memory models and processes.
  • Knowledge representation, organization, and manipulation.
  • Language.

Scenario

Imagine you are now a professional psychologist working in the specialization that you aspire to. You are charged with creating professional development for an interdisciplinary team of professionals in your workplace on how theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices of cognitive and affective psychology can be used to help people in your work context.

Preparation

The second assessment focuses on memory models and processes; knowledge representation, organization, and manipulation; and language acquisition and competency. For context on these topics, read the following:

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

  • How did theories and models of memory, language, and knowledge evolve over time? Which ones seem most credible today?
  • What processes are involved in the acquisition and use of language? Are they more guided by inherited or environmental factors (nature or nurture)?
  • What are the relationships between memory, language, and knowledge?
  • What would it be like to live without memory? Without language?
  • What is declarative knowledge and how is its representation and organization explained by various theories?
  • What is procedural knowledge and how is it represented in the mind? How does it differ from declarative knowledge?
  • How do brain physiology and neuroscience help to explain normal and abnormal facilities with language, memory, and acquisition and retrieval of knowledge? Does science point toward interventions that could help persons with issues in these areas? Does it point toward ways to enhance capacities?
  • How might you help clients or students give up their intuitively held yet erroneous beliefs about the world?
  • Do culturally diverse populations experience memory, knowledge, and language differently?
  • How do emotions impact memory, knowledge, and language ability?

Instructions

For this assessment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation focused on the following topics:

  • Memory models and processes.
  • Knowledge representation, organization, and manipulation.
  • Language acquisition and competency.

The following resource is required to complete the assessment.

Note: Do not submit a paper for this assessment. Papers will not be graded.

You will complete this assessment by replacing all language that is enclosed within brackets [. . .] in the PowerPoint Presentation Template with your own words.

As in the previous assessment, you may see the Suggested Resources for guidance on basics of PowerPoint. The same design recommendations apply to this assessment as well.

Remember, your presentation is for an interdisciplinary team, so it will be important to communicate in a manner that can be understood by those not trained in psychology.

Contents of the Presentation

Title Slide

On the first slide of the PowerPoint, enter the following:

  • A descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words. It should stir interest while maintaining professional decorum.
  • Professional development for [enter the type of institutional context your presentation is designed for].
    • Your name.
    • Your specialization.
    • Course number and title.
    • Capella University.
    • Faculty name.

Note: If this presentation was made in an actual professional context, the entries under your name would be replaced by your job title, the name of your organization, and perhaps your contact information.

Topic Introduction Slides

Present each of the three topics in a separate section that begins with a slide naming the topic and concisely introducing it.

Theoretical Background Slides

Use one or more slides to briefly analyze the origins and evolution of each theory that you will reference in relation to each topic.

Application Slides

Use one or more slides to explain how theories, principles, and evidence-based best practices related to each topic can be used to explain behavior and help people. Remember, these factors should be relevant to the context your presentation is designed for. For each of these:

  • Analyze how and to what extent brain physiology and neuroscience can provide an explanation of relevant phenomena.
  • Analyze how affect may impact cognitive performance in these areas.
  • Explain one or more ethical issues that might arise in the application of theories and principles related to memory, language, or knowledge.
    • Cite the APA Code of Ethics or another code of ethics if it is more relevant to your area.
  • Explain how theories and principles related to at least one of the topics in your presentation apply to culturally diverse populations.