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This measurement of validity is the easiest to achieve and the most basic.
What is Face Validity?
A group of scores divided in half by this type of measure.
What is median?
This type of scale has a disadvantage in that subjects' responses may not reflect their true attitudes.
What are Attitude Scales?
Stable and significant differences in vocational interests exist between men and women. This topic of research involves __ __ __ __ __ __ differences.
What is gender research?
This type of effect occurs when an overgeneralization from a highly positive source influences other areas.
What is the Halo effect?
A Feminism course is introduced into the CMHC program at WilmU. A test to evaluate the effectiveness of the course is developed. Four graduating classes have taken the test and received uniformly low grades. This demonstrates poor __________ Validity.
What is Content?
A Reliability of a coefficient of .8 is this % of variability due to true score differences.
What is 80%
These tests are more valid than either interest inventories or personality tests when used for predicting performance ratings.
What are ability tests?
This factor distinguishes experimental designs from quasi-experimental designs.
What is random assignment of subjects to groups?
The "belief-in-a-just-world" __________ has been used to explain prejudice.
What is hypothesis?
The term "causality" is best associated with this type of validity.
What is Internal Validity?
The standard error of measurement measures _______ of the sample mean of the data (obtained scores) compared to the true population mean.
What is difference?
Fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, and variable interval are all this type of reinforcement schedule.
What are Intermittent schedules of reinforcement?
This amendment attempts to prevent funding for support and outreach services for homosexuals.
What is the Helms amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act?
This type of bias is a cognitive bias that refers to the systematic errors made when people evaluate or try to find reasons for their own and others' behaviors.
What is Attribution bias?
A newly developed intelligence test will demonstrate this type of validity if the scores match the predicted variable (Intelligence) over time.
What is Construct Validity?
Multiple regression uses __ (#) predictor variable(s) to predict scores on ___ (#) criterion variable(s).
What are 2+ and 1?
20 children are selected for a control group and 20 are selected for an experimental group. After the training in the experimental group, a test is administered to reassess ability of all children. The study is most likely to be affected by this type of threat to internal validity.
What is differential selection?
The function of a test designed to determine specific job performance could best be described as this type of assessment.
What is prediction?
Retail employees who regularly use hand sanitizer in the presence of a supervisor is an example of this type of effect.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
The time that scores on the predictor and criterion are obtained differentiate between these two types of validity.
Predictive and concurrent validity.
This correlation coefficient could be used to compare the variable gender and scores on the Graduate Record Exam (GRE).
What is Point Biserial?
The measure of the extent to which obtained test scores reflect the true scores.
What is Reliability?
History, maturation, instrumentation, and regression are types of threats to internal validity.
In a single-group time series design, control is not accounted for with this type of threat.
What is History?
This former school psychologist who founded the Yale Child Study Center conducted extensive research involving children and developmental issues.
Who is Dr. Arnold Gesell?