For extra credit, you can do this assignment. The file should not be longer than five pages.
Select a standardized test you have taken over the last five years. Discuss these issues:
1. How did you prepare for the test, if at all? Did this preparation prove to be useful? In what ways? In retrospect, could you have prepared for the test in a more effective way? How? How do you know this approach might have been better?
2. How did you expect to do on this test? How did you actually do on it?
3. What factors do you think might have positively and negatively affected your performance on this test?
4. What influence, if any, did this test have on your subsequent life?
5. Briefly summarize what we know about the reliability and validity of this test. If possible,to do this consult the Mental Measurements Yearbook (unfortunately not in Healey Library).
6. Do your own individual experiences with this test support or contradict empirical research on the reliability and validity of this test? In what specific ways? How can you account for this match or mismatch?
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