Homework: Ethical & Professional Issues in Psychology Testing
Prior to beginning work on this homework, please read the required textbook chapters and articles for this week.
Create a PowerPoint presentation with 16 to 20 slides (not including the title and reference slides) entitled Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychological Testing. Your presentation must provide 2 to 3 slides for each of the required topics and include appropriate citations of your referenced sources. You must create your own template and organize your presentation in the sequence provided. Do not use a font smaller than 20 pt. You are encouraged to insert relevant figures and graphics. Make sure to appropriately cite any images you use.
Presentation notes: If you were to give the presentation live, you would not read directly from your slides.
Develop speaker notes to accompany each slide and include the speaker notes in the notes section of each slide. These speaker notes must include the script you would use for the oral comments you would make while presenting the materials to a live audience. Do not save your presentation as a PDF. Upload the PowerPoint with the speaker notes included.
The presentation must cover each of the following topics in the order presented below.
• The Ethical and Social Implications of Testing
o Provide an overview and brief evaluation of the ethical and social implications of psychological assessment.
• Professional Responsibilities
o Describe the responsibilities of both test publishers and test users.
• Testing Individuals Representing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
o Analyze and describe issues related to the testing of cultural and linguistic minorities.
• Reliability
o Explain the common sources of measurement error and how measurement error can impact reliability.
• Validity
o Create a diagram or figure to compare the types of validity discussed in the textbook.
o Describe the extravalidity concerns related to testing.
o Review the articles by Fergus (2013), Kosson, et al. (2013) and Mathieu, Hare, Jones, Babiak, & Neumann (2013). Analyze the information presented in these articles on factor analysis and describe how it is used to validate the constructs of the instruments.
• Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction
o Compare clinical and statistical prediction of mental health decisions based on the work of Ægisdóttir, et al. (2006) and Grove & Lloyd (2006).
• Application One: An Ethical and Professional Quandry
o Select one of the Ethical and Professional Quandries in Testing from Case Exhibit 1.2 in your textbook and describe the ethical issues specific to the scenario you selected. Include an analysis of the relevant principles from Standard 9 in the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
o Taking on the role of the psychologist or counselor in the chosen scenario, describe how you might respond to the challenge you selected and provide a brief rationale for your decision.
• Application Two: Evidence-Based Medicine
o Summarize Youngstrom's (2013) recommendations for linking assessment directly to clinical decision making in evidence-based medicine.
o Elaborate on each of Youngstrom's recommendations by providing practical examples that illustrate the relevance of the recommendations in a clinical setting.
• Application Three: Selecting Valid Instruments
o Create a research hypothesis or brief clinical case scenario in which you must select an instrument to measure intolerance for uncertainty.
o Use the information in the Fergus (2013) article to support which measure to use.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.