Exam 5: Introduction-To-Measurement

With true score theory,____ error is considered to contribute to test scores.​

Ahran develops a measure of test anxiety and finds that,on average,it measures test anxiety for the group,but individual scores are highly variable from test to retest.His test is _______________ but not _______________.

When there is no error in measurement,reliability is ____.​

Cohen's kappa is used to overcome limitations associated with reliability assessed using the ____ method.​

Random error is also called noise.​

​An evaluation of whether the operationalization or the implementation of the construct behaves the way it should is referred to as _______________.

When a television competition show has a "red" team and a "blue" team,they are using a(n)_______________ scale.​

The consistency of results across items within a test is referred to as ____ reliability.​

A(n)_______________ scale simply ranks attributes.​

A measure that consistently and accurately measures what is supposed to measure is ____.​

Hannah has developed a scale for assessing social interaction among children with moderate to severe developmental disabilities.Because it is in the early stages,she trains two research assistants in how to use the scale,has them both observe the same children,and compares the scores they give the children.Hannah is assessing ____ reliability.​

The reliability ratio is expressed as ____.​

When a(n)_______________ scale is used,it makes sense to say one score is twice as much as another or that twice as much of the characteristic being measured is present.​

In ____,research participants try to figure out what the experimenter is "really" trying to do.​

A measure that measures what it is supposed to measure but does not yield consistent scores is ____.​

​ Figure 5.13 -In the formula illustrated in the accompanying figure,sd stands for ____.​

In what level of measurement can the attributes be ranked?​

Hannah has developed a scale for assessing social interaction among children with moderate to severe developmental disabilities.Because it is in the early stages,she has many dozens of potential items and decides to create two versions of the test from among her many items and then have individual observers score the same children using the two different versions.Hannah is assessing ____ reliability.​

When systematic error affects the mean of a distribution,it is referred to as ____.​

Systematic error in an estimate is referred to as _______________.​