Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
66 results found in Assessment.
- ABC Model (Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence, ABC Analysis, ABC Framework)
- A behavioural-science framework, rooted in B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning, that analyses any observed behaviour as a three-part sequence: Antecedent (the situation, trigger, or context immediate…
- ADHD Rating Scale (ADHD-RS, ADHD-RS-IV)
- A standardised assessment tool based on DSM diagnostic criteria for evaluating the frequency and severity of ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents. Completed by parents or teachers, it measures in…
- Adaptive Behavior (Adaptive Skills, Adaptive Functioning)
- The collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills that people learn and perform in everyday life. Conceptual skills include language, literacy, and self-direction; social skills encompass int…
- Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS, ASRS-v1.1, Adult ADHD Self-Rating Scale)
- A short self-report screening instrument for adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder developed by the World Health Organization in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Medical School. Th…
- Aphasia Severity Rating (ASR Score, Aphasia Severity Rating Scale)
- A clinician-administered ordinal scale, part of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, indicating the severity of a person's aphasia on a 0-5 range where 0 indicates no usable speech or comprehens…
- Assistive Technology Assessment (AT Assessment, Assistive Technology Evaluation, AT Evaluation)
- An assistive technology assessment is a systematic evaluation process to identify the most appropriate assistive technology solutions for an individual with a disability. The assessment typically cons…
- Attention Network Test (ANT, ANT-I, ANT-Child)
- A computer-administered cognitive task developed by Fan, Posner, and colleagues that measures three functionally distinct attention networks — alerting (sustained readiness), orienting (shifting atten…
- Audiogram (Hearing Test Chart, Pure-tone Audiogram)
- An audiogram is a graph of a person's hearing thresholds measured across a range of frequencies — typically 250 Hz to 8 kHz — plotted separately for each ear. Thresholds are expressed in decibels hear…
- Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS, ADOS-2)
- A standardized diagnostic protocol for autism that uses structured and semi-structured social interaction tasks between an examiner and the person being assessed. First published in 1989 and designed …
- Automated Readability Scoring (ARSS, Automated Readability Scoring System, Readability Assessment)
- The use of computational methods to automatically evaluate the reading difficulty level of a text. Traditional readability formulas like Flesch-Kincaid and Dale-Chall use surface features such as aver…
- Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q)
- A 25-item self-report questionnaire developed by Hull, Mandy, Lai, Baron-Cohen and colleagues (2019) for adults to self-assess autistic masking (camouflaging) behaviours. Items are rated on a 7-point …
- Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL, K-CBCL)
- A standardised parent-report assessment tool used to evaluate behavioural and emotional problems in children aged 6-18. It measures internalising problems (anxiety, withdrawal, somatic complaints) and…
- Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR, CDR Scale)
- The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) is a five-point staging scale used to characterise the severity of dementia, originally developed by Hughes and colleagues at Washington University in 1982. A clinic…
- Clock Drawing Test (CDT)
- The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a brief cognitive screening task in which a person is asked to draw a clock face, place the numbers, and set the hands to a specified time (commonly "ten past eleven").…
- Cognitive Assessment (Neuropsychological assessment, Cognitive testing)
- Structured evaluation of cognitive abilities — attention, memory, executive function, language, visuospatial processing, and more — using standardized tasks, questionnaires, or interactive assessments…
- Comprehensive Attention Test (CAT)
- A computer-based, clinically validated battery for assessing multiple attention capacities in children and adolescents. It measures sub-components including visual and auditory selective attention, su…
- Digitized Assessment (Digitised Assessment, Digital Hiring Assessment, Computer-Based Employment Assessment)
- A computer-based hiring test used by employers to evaluate candidates' personality, cognition, skills, or judgement. Common formats include personality inventories, gamified cognitive tasks (balloon-i…
- Emotional Intelligence Test (EI Test, I-EQ Test, Emotional Intelligence Assessment)
- A hiring assessment that asks candidates to identify emotions in photographs of faces or to judge appropriate emotional responses in social scenarios. Emotional-intelligence tests are particularly ina…
- Error Taxonomy (Error Classification, Error Typology)
- A systematic classification of the types of errors that users or learners commonly make, organised into categories based on the nature, source, or linguistic level of the error. In accessibility and e…
- Farnsworth D-15 Test (D-15 Color Test, Farnsworth Dichotomous Test)
- The Farnsworth D-15 test is a clinical assessment used to evaluate color perception by asking a person to arrange 15 colored caps in order of hue. The pattern of errors reveals the type and severity o…