Measurement
Measurement is defined in one sentence.
What is defined as an appraisal of the amount of something.
Gender, race, type of school, and nature of community are all representative of this type of scale of measurement.
Which is nominal?
What is descriptive statistics.
The score that occurs most frequently in a distribution.
What is the mode?
The presentation of evidence that the inferences are appropriate (2 words).
What is measurement validity?
Specific items, techniques, or instruments used for measurement.
What are measures?
The simplest scale of measurement.
Which is nominal?
Mathematical procedures used to summarize and analyze data.
What is statistics?
The midpoint that divides a rank-ordered distribution into halves containing equal number of scores.
What is the median.
This type of evidence is usually accumulated by having experts used to judge the relative criticality or importance of the various parts of an instrument/measure (3 words).
Procedures used to measure student performance.
What is assessment?
These scale of measurement assume equal size intervals.
Which are interval and ratio?
The researcher organizes ungrouped data by indicating how many times each score is obtained (2 words).
What is a frequency distribution?
The arithmetic average of the scores in the distribution.
What is the mean?
How items that are purported to measure the same thing relate to each other, and how items measuring different things, do not (2 words).
What is evidence-based on internal structure?
Good quantitative research must have this (2 words).
What is sound measurement.
Rank ordering is possible in these types of scales of measurement.
Which are ordinal, interval, and ratio?
When there is more than 10 different scores, you can create exclusive groups or intervals, and show the number in each group (3 words).
What is a grouped frequency distribution.
A distribution which has a large degree of dispersion - that is the scores are very dissimilar (2 words).
What is high variability?
What is concurrent criterion-related evidence?
Assess is a synonym for this.
What is to measure?
This measurement scale has a true zero point.
Which is ratio?
When referring to positive and negative skewness this is being referred to (2 words).
What is the mean score (relative to the median).
The numerical difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.
What is the range?
The extent to which participant, rater, and observer scores are free from error (2 words).
What is measurement reliability?