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So You Want To Be A What?
100

This refers to test/scale items that are short in structure and require a short answer as well.

What are short answer and completion items?

100

This type of questionnaire item refers to those items where the test taker writes a multi-sentence response to the question.

What is an essay item?

100

This term is defined as a collection of variables that are related to one another.

What is a factor?

100

This is a statistical technique that examines the relationship between a group of variables.

What is a factor analysis?

100

People that score higher in this General Occupational Theme prefer activities that are practical and hands-on and that result in tangible results, such as building repairing, or fixing. Example vocations could be carpenter, roofer, builder, etc.

What is Realistic?

200

Short answer questions are used for tapping this kind of information/knowledge?

What is basic information/knowledge, or lower-level thinking skills, or memorization?

200

If the essay instructions include directions to use as much space and take as much time as you need, you are writing what kind of essay?

What is an open-ended, unrestricted, or extended essay item?

200

Cronbach's Alpha is a measure of this form of reliability.

What is internal consistency reliability?

200

This table is part of the SPSS output that indicates the eignvalues and total variance explained by the factors.

What is total variance explained table?

200

These people prefer activities that include self-management and leadership in addition to selling. Example vocations could be sales, management, and advertising.

What is Enterprising?

300

Completion and short answer are especially attractive items formats for what content or subject area?

What is Mathematics?

300

Essay questions are used for tapping this kind of information/knowledge?

What is higher-order outcomes? When comparisons, evaluations, analyses, and interpretations are required.

300

Freebie!

You get these points automatically

300

This number is a measure of how much of the variance of the observed variables a factor explains. Hint* When this number is greater than 1, researcher know to retain the factor. Double Jeopardy for answering this one correctly.

What is an eigenvalue?

300

This social scientist is responsible for providing the six occupational themes commonly found in the literature on vocational testing.

Who is John Holland?

400

With other types of items, such as true-false or multiple choice, it is much easier to guess the correct response. However, much like essay items, the use of these items minimize guessing.

What is Short Answer and Completion Items?

400

With essay items, one disadvantage is that this skill can become more important than the content of the answer.

What is writing? Because essays are written, some people can bluff their way through the answer just by virtue of their writing.

400

This is a plot with eigenvalues indicating the number of factors present in a data set.

What is a scree plot?

400

This matrix/table is printed in the SPSS output of a factor analysis and shows the pattern of how items loaded onto the retained factors.

What is a pattern matrix/table?

400

People that prefer to solve problems that involve science and engineering, and they enjoy challenging situations that demand intellectual activity would fall under this General Occupational Theme.

What is Investigative?

500

Test takers are required to provide or supply a response for this type of test item.

What is a supply item?

500

When grading essay items, having this greatly increases the likelihood that you will evaluate each answer fairly and have as objective a standard as possible.

What is a model response or model correct answer?

500

This one is a freebie!

500pts just for giving this one a try.

500

This one is a freebie!

You get 500pts just for being bold enough to give it a shot.

500

This career test is self-administered, self-scored, and self-interpreted?

What is the self-directed search?