{"id":444,"date":"2021-02-26T02:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/?post_type=part&#038;p=444"},"modified":"2021-02-27T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T23:33:08","slug":"chapter-3-test-components","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/part\/chapter-3-test-components\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 3:  Test Components","rendered":"Chapter 3:  Test Components"},"content":{"raw":"<p class=\"import-Normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Measurement and assessment can be considered in terms of its four major components. <em>Construction<\/em> refers to how the test was created; <em>administration<\/em>, how participants completed it; <em>scoring<\/em>, how participants' responses were transformed into data; and <em>interpretation<\/em>, how one makes sense of these data. As shown below in Figure 3-1, how a particular measurement method is created (e.g., the selection of test items), how the method is administered, and how items are scored all influence the interpretation of measurement scores.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Figure 7<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><strong><a id=\"F7\"><\/a>Steps on the Path to Test Interpretation\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5533\/2021\/01\/17184818\/Fig-1.png\" \/>\r\n\r\nTo function as a competent test user, learning and understanding all four of these components is necessary. Understanding the field's limitation in each area is also important when test users make decisions based on test scores.","rendered":"<p class=\"import-Normal\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Measurement and assessment can be considered in terms of its four major components. <em>Construction<\/em> refers to how the test was created; <em>administration<\/em>, how participants completed it; <em>scoring<\/em>, how participants&#8217; responses were transformed into data; and <em>interpretation<\/em>, how one makes sense of these data. As shown below in Figure 3-1, how a particular measurement method is created (e.g., the selection of test items), how the method is administered, and how items are scored all influence the interpretation of measurement scores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\">Figure 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\"><strong><a id=\"F7\"><\/a>Steps on the Path to Test Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5533\/2021\/01\/17184818\/Fig-1.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To function as a competent test user, learning and understanding all four of these components is necessary. Understanding the field&#8217;s limitation in each area is also important when test users make decisions based on test scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-444","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/444\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-psychologicalmanual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}