What are the Criteria of Test Evaluation?

1. Because a test is personal, it is not necessarily an invasion of privacy. When the purpose of the test is benign, when it is used to help individuals plan their lives and avoid failure, it is no different in principles form the physical examination required for participation in athletics.

2. The secrecy surrounding test scores was intended to guard against the possibility that parents might give too much credence to test scores indicating their child to be below average or handicapped in some way. Psychologists, aware of the many factors influencing test performance, this generally good reason for withholding scores has backfired somewhat because it has made the test scores appear to be more important than they are.

Since what intelligence tests do best in predict school grades, there should be no more damage in one’s knowing that he has a low IQ than in knowing he is doing poorly in school.

Results of attitude studies show that children who were given their test scores more often than not raised their estimates of their own intelligence (Brim, 1965).

In other words, children have many indicators, beyond intelligence test scores, that they are brighter or duller than other children. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation gives full disclosure of its scores, with apparently beneficial results.

3. As Terman’s study of gifted individuals showed, the intelligence test is a limited predictor of success, creativity, special talents, motivation, perseverance and other personality variables are important.

Psychologists have stressed that such non-intellectual variables should be considered in the selection policies of educational and business institutions. Used in conjunction with other information, intelligence test results can be valuable.

4. The fairness of the test to underprivileged and minority groups is a complex problem to which psychologists have devoted considerable study (Loehlin and others, 1975): A point often overlooked is that ability tests provide, objective criteria and, when properly used, may overcome some of the discriminations practiced against minority groups, thus increase the opportunities for members of minority groups.

This follows because the tests measure ability rather than social status. In one comparison of white and black adult respondents, it was found that lower-class blacks indeed favoured the use of tests in job selection and promotion more than did the white respondents (Brim, 1965).

Assessment

1. For the test of fatness commonly used methods are the weighing and skin fold measurement. Skin fold measure is done with the help of a calculator called skinned. Tests used are Body fat percentage and Yuhasz skin fold test.

2. Since strength is the amount of force exerted one time it is difficult to measure. An example of a true test of strength is a dynamometer to test grip strength. A maximum lift (the highest amount of weight, a person can lift one time) will measure strength of the certain lifts such as pectoral muscles (bench press) and the deltoids (military press). Other tests to measure strength are sit-up test, curl-up test and press-up test.

3. Various kinds of muscular endurances are given below with the method of evaluating them:

4. Flexibility of body is measured by Gonimeter or the Flexo meter. Also tests like sit and reach test and trunk extension splits. Also used are static flexibility tests (of ankle, shoulder, hip & trunk).

5. Cardio respiratory endurance are evaluated by Astrand Treadmill test, Balke V0₂ max test, Conjoin test, Harvard step test, critical swim speed, etc.