Non Standardized Differences

Standardized and Non-Standardized Differences
Both standardized and non-standardized assessment testing in the field of mental health counseling have advantages and disadvantages. In standardized assessments, they strive to measure the measurable, while in a non-standardized test, it seeks to measure skills that are perceptible and maybe important, but cannot be quantified. Luckily, each form of these assessments can work with each other in mental health counseling (Robert, 2015).
Standardized assessments confide data that is easily measurable, such as the most common tests of multiple-choice questions. These tests give the client(s) questions to be filled in by circling an answer that correspond with what they believe is the most popular answer shown. Non-standardized assessments are much less formal and these tests rely rather on situations. This includes examples such as counselor observations, a portfolio, and informal questioning within the therapy session(s) (Flanagan, Mascolo, & Hardy-Braz, 2009).
Standardized Testing

Standardized testing includes two types of testing instruments that are known as norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests (Flanagan et al., 2009). In norm-referenced tests, the instruments produce scores or outcomes that compare the client’s, or group of client’s scores, to a typical sample (the normative group) of others in the same-age group, or particular people with the same disorder(s). In criterion referenced tests, the testing instrument includes evaluating the client’s scores to a pre-determined criterion (Flanagan et al.,