NBCC NCE-ABE Exam With Confidence Using Practice Dumps

In the Assessment and Testing core area, CACREP expects counselors to distinguish between different categories of instruments, including interest inventories, personality tests, aptitude tests, and self-concept measures.

Interest inventories are designed to assess a person’s likes and dislikes regarding activities, subjects, and occupations. They are widely used in career counseling to help people explore suitable fields based on what they enjoy.

They directly ask about preferences—which is exactly what the question describes.

Why the others are not best:

Likert-type scale (B): This is a response format (e.g., strongly agree to strongly disagree), not a type of test by itself. It can be used in many kinds of instruments (attitudes, beliefs, etc.).

Self-concept inventory (C): Focuses on how people see themselves (self-image, self-worth), not primarily on their likes and dislikes about activities or careers.

Projective technique (D): Uses ambiguous stimuli (inkblots, drawings, etc.) to explore personality dynamics, not straightforward preference ratings.

Therefore, an instrument that indicates likes and dislikes is A. An interest inventory.

In the Assessment and Testing core area, counselors must differentiate among types of validity:

Face validity refers to the degree to which a test appears, on the surface, to measure what it claims to measure. It is based on a subjective judgment of the items by laypersons or test users—essentially, “does this look like it measures what it says it does?” This is captured by option D, which involves subjectively examining the items.

By contrast:

Option A describes criterion-related or convergent validity (correlating with another established measure).

Option B reflects item analysis and relates to internal consistency/reliability, not face validity.

Option C describes content validity, which relies on expert judgment about whether items adequately represent the construct content.

Thus, D is the correct description of how face validity is established.

Within the Research and Program Evaluation core area, counselors are expected to understand how different research designs relate to questions of causality. Experimental designs are identified as the primary method for examining cause–effect relationships because they:

Use manipulation of an independent variable

Include control or comparison groups

Often use random assignment to reduce bias

Descriptive and correlational designs can show associations or describe variables but cannot establish causation because they do not control for alternative explanations in the same way. Therefore, consistent with CACREP’s emphasis on understanding experimental methods as the standard for testing causal hypotheses, the correct answer is D. An experimental design.