The Impact of Technology on Testing in the Counseling Field

question 13

Multiple Choice

The impact of technology on testing in the counseling field has:

• A) been negligible, since it has no real statistical significance.
• B) raised concerns about compromised privacy and confidentiality.
• C) been instrumental in clarifying assessment issues.
• D) none of the above.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values that is likely to contain a population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, and the observed outcomes are due to chance; it is the hypothesis tested for possible rejection in statistical analysis.

Hypothesized Value

A specified value in hypothesis testing which is assumed for the sake of argument or investigation.

One-Tail Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution.