Personality Test to Assess a Young Adult, African American Male: Ethical Issues
Course: Gen. 1000
Tests and Measurements
Instructor: Patrick Miles, Ph.D.
Summer Semester 2012-2013
Student: Evelyn Melendez
Date: June 15, 2013
Assignment 1A
Question: What ethical issues should a Psychologist consider when selecting a personality test to assess a young adult, African American male? In your response, apply what you learned from your reading concerning the cultural and ethical issues in the use of tests.
Answer: Review how the personality test was developed, if African American males were represented in terms of demographic variables such as age, socioeconomic status, ethnic background, education level, and geographic region. Was a preliminary version of the test given to a representative sample of African American males and analyzed by a panel of independent reviewers? What was the outcome of the reviewers for possible test items bias? Where they any revisions and how did the revisions root out any identifiable sources of bias?
Sensitivity between the assessor and the assessee regarding communication or any difference in language/dialect/bias and assessing acculturation, identification, worldview, and values enhances the personal and non-observable elements related to measuring personality in a more humanistic fashion.
Follow the APA principle Code of Ethics in general with attention to principle nine. Additionally, review test construct, conceptual definition, operational definition, population, sample, norms, object, measurement, test scores, and classification, demonstrating a valid reliability rate.
The assessor has the responsibility to use sensitivity when discussing with the assessee and parent the purpose of the test, the meaning of the score compared to other testtakers, possible limitations, and margin of error to the test. As part of best practice, counseling resources should be available should the information illicit a negative reaction from the parent and or assessee. The assessee has the right to
Tests and Measurements
Instructor: Patrick Miles, Ph.D.
Summer Semester 2012-2013
Student: Evelyn Melendez
Date: June 15, 2013
Assignment 1A
Question: What ethical issues should a Psychologist consider when selecting a personality test to assess a young adult, African American male? In your response, apply what you learned from your reading concerning the cultural and ethical issues in the use of tests.
Answer: Review how the personality test was developed, if African American males were represented in terms of demographic variables such as age, socioeconomic status, ethnic background, education level, and geographic region. Was a preliminary version of the test given to a representative sample of African American males and analyzed by a panel of independent reviewers? What was the outcome of the reviewers for possible test items bias? Where they any revisions and how did the revisions root out any identifiable sources of bias?
Sensitivity between the assessor and the assessee regarding communication or any difference in language/dialect/bias and assessing acculturation, identification, worldview, and values enhances the personal and non-observable elements related to measuring personality in a more humanistic fashion.
Follow the APA principle Code of Ethics in general with attention to principle nine. Additionally, review test construct, conceptual definition, operational definition, population, sample, norms, object, measurement, test scores, and classification, demonstrating a valid reliability rate.
The assessor has the responsibility to use sensitivity when discussing with the assessee and parent the purpose of the test, the meaning of the score compared to other testtakers, possible limitations, and margin of error to the test. As part of best practice, counseling resources should be available should the information illicit a negative reaction from the parent and or assessee. The assessee has the right to