Identify a behavioral health issue that is related to the topic you are focusing on throughout your MSW program. Then, identify at least three standardized rapid assessment instruments that you believe would effectively supplement a biopsychosocial assessment. Prepare a proposal for these instruments and be sure to address the following:
Identify your focus topic and the behavioral health issue you are choosing for this assignment.
Describe each standardized rapid assessment instrument, and then indicate who created each one. Offer proof that each one is evidence-based.
Determine how each tool would be applied in a clinical setting. Justify the use of each tool, in addition to the standard biopsychosocial assessment.
Provide a PDF copy of each assessment instrument.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
The Unit 4 Discussion Board has two parts. Please respond to each part with a separate Discussion post.
Objective Test Items
Compare and contrast different types of objective test items. For this Discussion, you will limit your objective item types to multiple-choice, true/false or alternative response, and matching. You are to describe a learning situation where you would use each of these objective test items. For each type of objective test item, provide the following:
The unit objective or learning target(s) being assessed. The type of objective test item you might use. Why you elected to use that type of objective test item. In your responses to your classmates’ examples be sure to critically, but politely, evaluate your classmate’s selection of the particular objective item type for their stated purpose. If you would use a different type of objective item for that learning target or objective, be sure to indicate why. Keep in mind that there might be more than one appropriate objective type item for a particular situation. Also, your examples may be either a formative assessment or a summative assessment.
Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Tests
For this part of the Discussion, your task is to watch the following videos.
First Video: Criterion vs Norm Referenced Assessment: Evaluation and Examples
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Second Video: Criterion and Norm Referenced
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After viewing the two videos, respond to these prompts within the Discussion Board:
1) Discuss three differences between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests.
2) Discuss an advantage and a disadvantage of each type of assessment.
Discussion 5 In the Key Terms for this unit, there are numerous definitions of rubrics which include analytic, holistic, and annotated holistic rubrics. Read those definitions and then discuss the following:
What do you feel are the advantages and disadvantages of each type of rubric? How might you use this type rubric in your own classroom? In your replies to your classmates, what suggestions can you offer to your grade-level/subject-matter colleagues about the type of rubric selected? What type of rubric might you use in a similar situation and why?
Criterion-Referenced and Norm-Referenced Test Sores
1) Read pages 446–451 in your textbook, Measurement and Assessment in Teaching.
2) Watch the following video: Norm Referencing and Criterion Referencing. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNpPOfwwkQE
In the Discussion Board, discuss the following:
1) Describe the difference in how to interpret criterion-referenced and norm-referenced test scores.
2) Are there any cautions you may need to consider in interpreting scores from these two different tests?
Discussion 6
You have two things to do to prepare for this Discussion. First, watch this video featuring Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education, in which she speaks about the role of assessment in schools. (You can find a transcript of the video clip in Course Resources.)
Link to video – https://kapextmediassl-a.akamaihd.net/gradEd/ED562/Spellings_Video_3.mov
Then read the article “5 Ways ESSA Impacts Standardized Testing” in the NCLB Era: How Test Predictability Affects Our Understanding of Student Performance.”
Link to article – https://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-ways-essa-impacts-standardized-testing-anne-obrien
What is your position after listening to Dr. Spellings and reading recent research on the impact of legislation related to standardized testing? What changes do you think ESSA will have related to standardized testing?
It is not uncommon in this era of high-stakes accountability for administrators and other stakeholders to put pressure on teachers to prepare their students for the high-stakes accountability tests. Discuss possible ethical challenges faced by teachers in preparing for, administering, and interpreting high-stakes accountability assessments. In your replies to your classmates, discuss whether you agree with the position taken by your colleague regarding “teaching to the test.”
Do you agree with your colleague about the possible ethical challenges faced by teachers? Do you think there are other challenges around the issue of standardized achievement tests?