Validity Methods, Estimates, and Test Interpretation: Guides to Ethical Test Interpretation Practices: WS104

This intermediate workshop improves knowledge and application of test validity methods and statistical estimates produced to provide evidence for test interpretation. Ethical principles and test standards specify that test interpretation requires evidence for validity of test scores and comparisons, which form the basis of inferences made about an examinee. Many inferences and decisions made in clinical assessment are high-stakes decisions requiring strong evidence of validity. The workshop helps participants to better assess the evidence provided for test validity in test manuals, interpretation guides, and the literature and to decide which have adequate evidence.

Webinars are converted to video on-demand programs with closed captioning after the live air date.

• Articulate how test validity is the foundation for test interpretation and inferences about individuals and a foundation for ethical test interpretation.
• Apply at least five of the major approaches to assessing test score validity in judging the adequacy of psychological test scores and inferences.
• Describe the difference between test score validity (group application) and predictive or diagnostic utility (individual application).

Gary L. Canivez, PhD