Evaluation of Healthyplace.org's OCD Testing

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A psychological test is an objective and standardized measure of an individual’s mental and/or behavioral characteristics. A useful psychological test must be both valid and reliable. Due to the rapid spread of internet access the conversion from face-to-face administered assessments to online has become the innovative method of administration. Since it is a new process of administrating tests the validity and reliability of the online websites that provide the assessments have not been established. I selected the website HealthyPlace.com to complete an assessment on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and discourse my standpoint on its validity and reliability. I completed three Obsessive Compulsive Disorder assessments that were provided on HealthyPlace.com and all three concluded that I have high displayed symptoms of OCD. Due to these results I concluded that the website has operative reliability. The website also has numerous attained awards that lead me to consider the high probability of validity. Online Psych Assessment Assignment Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Psychologists conduct assessments, in which tests are used in conjunction with historical data, face-to-face contact, interview procedures, and experience to test hypotheses about individuals. However, computer technology has affected many fields, including testing and test administration. Today, almost all educational institutions and a growing number of households enjoy access to the Internet. This new accessibility has initiated test administration on computers to propagate. The website, Healthyplace.com, is the online source that I selected to complete an assessment on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This website claims to provision of confident mat... ... middle of paper ... ...mptoms. The third assessment that I completed was the OCD Screening Test. The scoring of the OCD Screening Test: 0-7 (OCD unlikely), 8-11 (OCD probable), and 12+ (OCD likely). My concluding score for this test was a 19. Some of the questions on the assessment were: Over concern with keeping objects (clothing, groceries, tools) in perfect order or arranged exactly?, Personally unacceptable religious or sexual thoughts?, and Needing to “confess” or repeatedly asking for reassurance that you said or did something correctly? The answer choices were between yes and no. I answered all of the mentioned assessment questions with yes. In conclusion, all of the three assessments that I completed on HealthyPlace.com came to the same deduction of the high possibility of present OCD symptoms. In my perspective the accuracy and consistency of the test scores propose reliability.

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