Category 1
Which term best describes the consistency of an assessment measure?
A. Reliability
B. Validity
C. Correlation
D. Variance
A. RELIABILITY
Increased exercise is likely to lead to a loss of weight is what type of correlation?
A. Weak correlation
B. Positive correlation
C. Negative correlation
D. Strong correlation
C. Negative correlation
Mr. Jones, the classroom teacher, administers a test to Joey in September and then again in October. Joey's scores are one point off. This test could be said to have
A. Test-retest reliability
B. Alternate forms reliability
C. Interrater reliability
D. Split Half reliability
A. Test-retest reliability
What happens to the range of scores when comparing obtained and true scores?
A. The true score provides a wider confidence interval.
B. The true score provides a narrower confidence interval.
C. There is no difference.
D. The obtained score provides a narrower confidence interval.
B. The true score provides a narrower confidence interval.
r= +.91 is best described as
A. A strong positive relationship between variables
B. A weak positive relationship between variables
C. A weak negative relationship between variables
D. A strong negative relationship between variables
A. A strong positive relationship between variables
r= 00 is best described as
A. A weak correlation
B. A perfect correlation
C. A positive correlation
D. No correlation
D. No correlation
Mrs. Rodriguez administers version A of and achievement test in September and then version B in May to determine progress for IEP reporting. Research must determine________ reliability in order to ensure that version A is the same as version B
A. Alternate forms reliability
B. Split half-reliability
C. Test-retest reliability
D. Interrater reliability
A. Alternate forms reliability
When a test actually measures what it purports to measure, we say that it has good
A. Correlation
B. Variance
C. Validity
D. Reliability
C. Validity
r= -.21 is best described as
A. A weak positive relationship between variables
B. A weak negative relationship between variables
C. A strong positive relationship between variables
D. A strong negative relationship between variable
B. A weak negative relationship between variables
Pearson r is best used with what types of scales?
A. Nominal and ordinal scales
B. Ratio and interval scales
C. Interval and nominal scales
D. Ratio and ordinal scales
B. Ratio and interval scales
Mark and Eve collect data on the same student using the same assessment and find their data is almost exactly the same. It could be said that Mark and Eve have
A. Test-retest reliability
B. Interrater reliability
C. Split half-reliability
D. Alternate forms reliability
B. Interrater reliability
Suppose you created a new measure of reading comprehension and you wanted to test its validity. Therefore you compare the results of your new measure to existing validated measures of reading comprehension and find that your measure compares well with these other measures. We could then say that your new measure has good____.
A. reliability
B. content validity
C. concurrent validity
D. criterion-related validity
D. criterion-related validity
Smoking leads to an increased risk of lung cancer is what type of correlation?
A. Negative correlation
B. Weak correlation
C. Positive correlation
D. Strong correlation
C. Positive correlation
Reliability most commonly measured using which of the following metrics?
A. Pearson's Product Moment
B. Standard Error of Measurement
C. Kuder-Richardson 20
D. Coefficient Alpha
A. Pearson's Product Moment
This formula is used to check consistency across items of an instrument with right/wrong responses
A. Standard Error of Measurement
B. Kuder-Richardson 20
C. Coefficient Alpha
D. Pearson's Product Moment
B. Kuder-Richardson 20
A test is said to accurately assess specific psychological and personality traits, psychological concepts, attributes, and theoretical characteristics. This assessment is likely to have good
A. predictive validity
B. concurrent validity
C. content validity
D. construct validity.
D. construct validity
Mrs. Morgan reviews an assessment that has a correlation coefficient of .45. Should Mrs. Morgan use this test? Why?
A. No; the correlation coefficient is too low.
B. No; a correlation coefficient must be at .80 to be considered reliable.
C. Yes; if the test was published, it must be reliable to use.
D. Yes; the correlation coefficient is considered adequate.
A. No; the correlation coefficient is too low.
Research has proven that the Best Achievement Test in America had poor internal consistency. What does that mean?
A. The test items do not repeatedly measure what they say they measure
B. The test is not produce the same results across time
C. The difference versions of the test do not produce the same responses
D. The test, when split and half and compared, does not produce the same results
A. The test items do not repeatedly measure what they say they measure
This formula is to check consistency across terms of an instrument with responses with varying credit.
A. Kuder-Richardson 20
B. Product Moment
C. Coefficient Alpha
D. Standard Error of Measurement
C. Coefficient Alpha
Mrs. Beth noticed that many of the students in her class who are Latino answered the same questions wrong when administering a standardized assessment. Mrs. Beth may be noticing _____ in the test creation.
A. racism
B. item bias
C. profiling
D. sexism
item bias