Question 1

How does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing conceptualize validity?

Accepted Answer

A)  Validity is a non-statistical measure for non-quantitative tests. 
B)  Validity should only be assessed when reliability is low. 
C)  Validity is a unitary concept that represents all evidence. 
D)  Only one type of validity must be high and the others can be low. 
A)  Validity is a non-statistical measure for non-quantitative tests. 
B)  Validity should only be assessed when reliability is low. 
C)  Validity is a unitary concept that represents all evidence. 
D)  Only one type of validity must be high and the others can be low.

Question 2

Which of the following is a legal requirement for the validity of a test that is used to select employees for a job?

Accepted Answer

A)  The test must focus on job-related tasks. 
B)  The test must include multiple choice,short-answer,and essay questions. 
C)  The test must include items taken directly from other,related tests. 
D)  The test must be uncorrelated with similar tests. 
A)  The test must focus on job-related tasks. 
B)  The test must include multiple choice,short-answer,and essay questions. 
C)  The test must include items taken directly from other,related tests. 
D)  The test must be uncorrelated with similar tests.

Question 3

A test with low reliability

Accepted Answer

A)  will not have a high validity coefficient. 
B)  may or may not have a high validity coefficient. 
C)  is likely to be face valid. 
D)  can be used in clinical practice but not research. 
A)  will not have a high validity coefficient. 
B)  may or may not have a high validity coefficient. 
C)  is likely to be face valid. 
D)  can be used in clinical practice but not research.

Question 4

The advantage of using a test that is "face valid" is that

Accepted Answer

A)  the appearance of validity can help motivate test-takers because they can see that the test is relevant. 
B)  it assures that the items are properly sampled from the domain of content. 
C)  face validity is an important component of criterion validity. 
D)  it boosts the construct validity coefficient. 
A)  the appearance of validity can help motivate test-takers because they can see that the test is relevant. 
B)  it assures that the items are properly sampled from the domain of content. 
C)  face validity is an important component of criterion validity. 
D)  it boosts the construct validity coefficient.

Question 5

Asking patients where their injured back hurts illustrates ____ validity.

Accepted Answer

A)  predictive 
B)  face 
C)  construct 
D)  content 
A)  predictive 
B)  face 
C)  construct 
D)  content

Question 6

The proportion of variation in the criterion that is knowable in advance from knowledge of the test scores can be found by

Accepted Answer

A)  construct-irrelevant variance. 
B)  the validity coefficient. 
C)  squaring the validity coefficient. 
D)  the square root of the validity coefficient. 
A)  construct-irrelevant variance. 
B)  the validity coefficient. 
C)  squaring the validity coefficient. 
D)  the square root of the validity coefficient.

Question 7

An exclusive preschool program has strict enrollment criteria and only accepts children with very high marks on the enrollment test.Unfortunately,they have found that the enrollment test does not correlate highly with the grades the children make.The probable reason is

Accepted Answer

A)  predictor/criterion confusion. 
B)  an invalid criterion. 
C)  convergent evidence. 
D)  range restriction. 
A)  predictor/criterion confusion. 
B)  an invalid criterion. 
C)  convergent evidence. 
D)  range restriction.

Question 8

Validity refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  the stability of a score. 
B)  the alpha level. 
C)  the agreement between a test score and the quality it is believed to measure. 
D)  item to total correlation. 
A)  the stability of a score. 
B)  the alpha level. 
C)  the agreement between a test score and the quality it is believed to measure. 
D)  item to total correlation.

Question 9

In Rubin's study on the Love Scale,the amount of time lovers spent gazing into each other's eyes was used as evidence for the scale's

Accepted Answer

A)  face validity. 
B)  criterion validity. 
C)  convergent validity. 
D)  content validity. 
A)  face validity. 
B)  criterion validity. 
C)  convergent validity. 
D)  content validity.

Question 10

To develop a test with construct validity,what types of validity evidence are needed?

Accepted Answer

A)  face validity and predictive validity 
B)  discriminant validity and predictive validity 
C)  face validity and content validity 
D)  discriminant validity and convergent validity 
A)  face validity and predictive validity 
B)  discriminant validity and predictive validity 
C)  face validity and content validity 
D)  discriminant validity and convergent validity

Question 11

A researcher seeking to develop a measure of depression cites a moderate correlation between her measure and the Beck Depression Inventory as evidence of the test's validity.What type of validity documentation does this provide?

Accepted Answer

A)  convergent validity 
B)  discriminant validity 
C)  content validity 
D)  face validity 
A)  convergent validity 
B)  discriminant validity 
C)  content validity 
D)  face validity

Question 12

Why does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing reject face validity?

Accepted Answer

A)  By definition,all tests have face validity. 
B)  Face validity in not technically a type of validity. 
C)  No reliable measures of face validity have been found. 
D)  Face validity is irrelevant. 
A)  By definition,all tests have face validity. 
B)  Face validity in not technically a type of validity. 
C)  No reliable measures of face validity have been found. 
D)  Face validity is irrelevant.

Question 13

Which type of validity is unique because it is not statistically-based?

Accepted Answer

A)  predictive 
B)  concurrent 
C)  content 
D)  construct 
A)  predictive 
B)  concurrent 
C)  content 
D)  construct

Question 14

Which of the following is an important validation consideration in industrial settings?

Accepted Answer

A)  pay grade 
B)  occupational classification 
C)  attrition 
D)  education 
A)  pay grade 
B)  occupational classification 
C)  attrition 
D)  education

Question 15

Many psychologists no longer believe this to be a separate type of evidence for validity because of the lack of clear-cut boundaries between it and other types of evidence for validity.What is it?

Accepted Answer

A)  content 
B)  criterion 
C)  construct 
D)  predictive 
A)  content 
B)  criterion 
C)  construct 
D)  predictive

Question 16

Why is evidence for criterion-related validity gathered?

Accepted Answer

A)  It is legally required. 
B)  It is critical for reliability. 
C)  Tests serve as a substitute for the real measure of interest. 
D)  Criterion validity subsumes all other validity. 
A)  It is legally required. 
B)  It is critical for reliability. 
C)  Tests serve as a substitute for the real measure of interest. 
D)  Criterion validity subsumes all other validity.

Question 17

A careful test constructor obtained the correlation between her test and a well-defined validity criterion.She then repeated the study to determine whether this same relationship held in another sample.This exercise is known as

Accepted Answer

A)  correction for attenuation. 
B)  construct validation. 
C)  cross validation. 
D)  criterion/predictor confusion. 
A)  correction for attenuation. 
B)  construct validation. 
C)  cross validation. 
D)  criterion/predictor confusion.

Question 18

Which type of validity is most important for educational tests?

Accepted Answer

A)  face 
B)  content 
C)  concurrent 
D)  predictive 
A)  face 
B)  content 
C)  concurrent 
D)  predictive

Question 19

Concurrent and predictive validity are both subcategories of

Accepted Answer

A)  criterion validity. 
B)  empirical validity. 
C)  face validity. 
D)  convergent validity. 
A)  criterion validity. 
B)  empirical validity. 
C)  face validity. 
D)  convergent validity.

Question 20

Which of the following was not one of the major categories recognized in the booklet on Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing?

Accepted Answer

A)  content validity 
B)  criterion validity 
C)  convergent validity 
D)  construct validity 
A)  content validity 
B)  criterion validity 
C)  convergent validity 
D)  construct validity

Exam 5: Validity

How does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing conceptualize validity?

Which of the following is a legal requirement for the validity of a test that is used to select employees for a job?

A test with low reliability

The advantage of using a test that is "face valid" is that

Asking patients where their injured back hurts illustrates ____ validity.

The proportion of variation in the criterion that is knowable in advance from knowledge of the test scores can be found by

An exclusive preschool program has strict enrollment criteria and only accepts children with very high marks on the enrollment test.Unfortunately,they have found that the enrollment test does not correlate highly with the grades the children make.The probable reason is

Validity refers to

In Rubin's study on the Love Scale,the amount of time lovers spent gazing into each other's eyes was used as evidence for the scale's

To develop a test with construct validity,what types of validity evidence are needed?

A researcher seeking to develop a measure of depression cites a moderate correlation between her measure and the Beck Depression Inventory as evidence of the test's validity.What type of validity documentation does this provide?

Why does the current edition of Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing reject face validity?

Which type of validity is unique because it is not statistically-based?

Which of the following is an important validation consideration in industrial settings?

Many psychologists no longer believe this to be a separate type of evidence for validity because of the lack of clear-cut boundaries between it and other types of evidence for validity.What is it?

Why is evidence for criterion-related validity gathered?

A careful test constructor obtained the correlation between her test and a well-defined validity criterion.She then repeated the study to determine whether this same relationship held in another sample.This exercise is known as

Which type of validity is most important for educational tests?

Concurrent and predictive validity are both subcategories of

Which of the following was not one of the major categories recognized in the booklet on Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing?

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