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standardized tests assessment  

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  • This entry defines a test and psychological assessment, identifies standards governing test development and use, discusses various forms of tests, emphasizes the importance of research and/or theory to support the ways the data are being interpreted and used, underscores the importance of construct underrepresentation and construct irrelevance on test validity, and identifies test performance qualities that may contribute to construct irrelevance. The development and use of standardized tests may represent psychology's most important technical contribution to the behavioral sciences. [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Assessment, Standardized Tests]

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