Report on Developing New Assessment Instrument for IQ testing amongst Elementary School Students

The report requires the writer to design an original instrument to assess a psychological construct of their choice, (in this instance an IQ test for Elementary School Students), and to write a report documenting the development process. All these instructions are also mentioned in the file: instructions.doc

Please follow the guidelines below to answer the question adequately. Please use at scholarly journals and recommended and approved textbooks for the references. There should also be plenty of in-text references to supplement the analysis of proposed instrument. I require the writer to answer the question critically, with adequate justification on choices made for constructing the instrument.

Suggested approach to this task:
i. Identify a specific need for assessment instrument in specific area of psychology
• Select an area of psychology (e.g., organisational, clinical, counselling, educational, forensic, sport, health, geriatric etc.)
• Identify who needs to be assessed on what? And why?
• What will be the original contribution of your instrument to the field?

ii. Design an original assessment instrument to achieve this specific purpose
• What form of assessment (e.g., test, questionnaire, observational checklist, interview schedule…) would be most suitable for this purpose, and why?
• Construct an item bank (or equivalent)
• Refine item bank (or equivalent)
• Refine presentation of instrument. Consider length, clarity, ease of use, scoring system, instructions for administrators and test-takers (as applicable).

iii. Write report on development & evaluation of instrument.
You should include the following information:
• Brief background to the area in which you are working, sufficient to orient a non-expert
• Rationale for developing your instrument, explaining the reasons behind the decisions that you have made in the design process.
• Description of the process you went through to develop your instrument
• Discussion of psychometric properties of your instrument, including reliability, validity, normative data, interpretation of scores and usefulness of the instrument. You should identify which aspects of these are relevant to your instrument, how you would assess their adequacy (or how you have assessed their adequacy), your proposed strategy for modifying your instrument in response to this assessment (or actual modifications made in response to assessment).
• Ethical considerations associated with the use of your instrument.
• Reference list.
• Please append your instrument along with any additional instructions necessary to use it.

You will be assessed on:
• The clear, adequate presentation of:
? your stated purpose for the instrument
? background information and definitions necessary to understand why the instrument was designed
? your description of the instrument
? your description of the process of developing the instrument.
? your description of the psychometric properties to be established for your instrument

• The originality and appropriateness of your instrument for its stated purpose

• The quality of your rationale for decisions made in the process of developing, evaluating and refining your instrument

• Your application of good psychometric principles in developing and evaluating your instrument.

• Your demonstration of understanding of the ethical issues associated with the administration, interpretation and reporting of results of your instrument

• Your appropriate reporting of and response to feedback on your instrument

• The clarity of the organisation of your report

• Your concise, objective, correct use of language

• Your accurate referencing in APA style.

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