Chapter 5 Quiz: Test Worthiness: Validity, Reliability, Cross-Cultural Fairness, and Practicality

The relationship between the amount of snow there is on the ground and the likelihood that one would get into a car accident driving their car in such weather would be best described as a(n) ________ correlation.

nonparametric

negative

positive

parametric

positive

Which of the following is NOT a kind of construct validity?

Factor analysis validity

Convergent validity

Experimental design validity

Criterion-related validity

criterion-related validity

Which of the following is a type of criterion-related validity?

Predictive validity

Convergent validity

Content validity

Discriminant validity

Predictive Validity

Concurrent and predictive validity are types of _______________.

construct validity

content validity

test-retest reliability

criterion-related validity

criterion-related validity

A test developer asks five clinicians who are experts in depression to rank 100 depressed clients on a 1 to 5 scale from minor depression to severe depression. The rankings are then correlated with test scores on a new test of depression. What kind of validity is being measured?

Concurrent

Predictive

Construct

Experimental

concurrent

In assessing the reliability of a new test, a sample of 1,000 examinees take the test, and then are asked to take the same test again one week later. This is an example of which type of reliability?

Alternate forms

Odd-even

Internal consistency

Test-retest

test-retest

When a test has been shown to produce consistent test results, it has which of the following?

Practicality

Validity

Reliability

Cross-cultural fairness

reliability

The Buckley Amendment, otherwise known as The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), asserted ___________________.

A) that individuals with disabilities, or who are disadvantaged, have access to vocational assessment, counseling, and placement

B) that tests used for hiring and advancement at work must show that they can predict job performance for all groups

C) the right of all individuals to their school records, including test records

D) that accommodations must be made for individuals who are taking tests for employment and that testing must be shown to be relevant to the job in question

C

Which of the following measures of practicality takes into account the attention span of the client you are testing?

Cost

Format

Time

Readability

time

Which law states that accommodations must be made for individuals who are taking tests for employments and that testing must be shown to be relevant to the job in question?

Civil Rights Act

Americans with Disabilities Act

Carl Perkins Act

Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974

Americans with Disabilities Act

Correlation coefficients range from -1.00 to +1.00 and generally are reported in decimals of one-hundredth. A positive correlation shows a tendency for scores to be

related in the same direction.

satisfactory.

inversely related.

unrelated.

related in the same direction

If Barnaby is looking at a graph that shows two or more sets of test scores, he is looking at a

scatterplot.

correlation.

content.

coefficient.

scatterplot

Squaring the correlation coefficient gives you the:

coefficient of determination.

content validity.

negative correlation.

face validity.

coefficient of determination

Thelma is looking for a test that measures the "here and now." Thelma is using a test that demonstrates _____ validity.

negative correlation

concurrent

content validity

face validity

concurrent

Angel wants to use a first variable to predict a range on scores of a second variable. Angel is applying which practical application of predictive validity?

Construct validity

Standard error of the estimates

Factor analysis

Convergence

standard error of the estimates

Content validity demonstrates evidence that test items represent the proper domain. Sometimes confused with content validity is ____ validity, which is how the test superficially looks and is not an actual type of validity.

importance

surface

face

superficial

face

Convergent validity occurs when you find a significant positive correlation between your test and other existing measures of a similar nature. Discriminant validity occurs when there is _____ relationship between your test and measures of constructs that are not theoretically related to your test.

little or no

significant negative

some

a mixed

little or no

Betty is looking to test her assessment by measuring reliability statistically by going "within" the test and looking at how scores on individual items relate to each other to the test as a whole. This type of testing is called

split-half reliability.

internal consistency.

coefficient alpha.

alternate reliability.

internal consistency

Item response theory (IRT) examines items individually for their ability to measure the trait being examined. This provides IRT test developers with a _____ over classical test theorists for improving reliability, because IRT provides more ________ information regarding individual items.

slight disadvantage, sophisticated

slight disadvantage, minimal

slight advantage, minimal

slight advantage; sophisticated

slight advantage; sophisticated

Hobson v. Hansen, 1967 and Moses v. Washington Parish School Board, 1969 are examples of court decisions that looked at the issues highlighted by the Civil Rights Movement that declared that African Americans and Hispanics were being compared unfairly against the White majority. The term to describe awareness of cross-cultural factors and how they impact the development, administration, scoring, and interpretation of assessing an individual is

the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

Carl Perkins Act.

cross-cultural fairness.

coefficient alpha.

cross-cultural fairness

Taarak is a first-grade teacher. Taarak plans with the school psychologist and teaching assistant about the best way to administer an already established and purchased hour-long reading assessment that has multiple reading passages with multistep directions. The test must be administered, scored, and communicated to the team within one month's time. Taarak and his teammates are looking at all but which aspects of the practicality of administrating this test?

Cost

Time

Format

Ease of administration, scoring, and interpretation

cost

If Elaina is examining the ease of understanding and using test manuals and related information, she is looking into which element of test practicality?

Ease of administration, scoring, and interpretation

Format

Readability

Time

ease of administration, scoring, and interpretation

Once client goals are determined the next step is to ___________ reach client goals.

choose the instrument types

determine more specific subgoals

access information about possible instruments

review measurements

choose the instrument types

The Mental Measurements Yearbook test reviews are classified into 18 major categories. Some of the categories include all but which of the following?

Intelligence and general aptitude

Achievement

Interest

Foreign language

interest

If one consulted books on testing, one would find that textbooks present an overview of testing that is usually ________ at presenting contemporary test information.

inconsistent

out of date

good

poor

good