Exam 7: Standardized Measurement and Assessment

Explain the meaning of validity and validity evidence.

Compare and contrast achievement and aptitude tests.

A scale of measurement that has equal distances between adjacent scale points but does not have a true zero point is known as:

Articulate the seven assumptions underlying testing and assessment.

Intelligence is typically measured using self-report, projective, and performance measures.

Systematic (i.e., non-random) error is associated with:

Another name for coefficient alpha is Cronbach's alpha.

Dr. Spock has developed a test to identify students who are gifted. He administered the test to students with very high IQs and students with very low IQs and compared the scores. He found that students with high IQs got very high scores on his giftedness test. These results show:

The gathering and integrating of data to make educational evaluations is specifically called:

A group of supervisors agrees that 16 items measure issues important to a particular kind of work. This is evidence of:

If a research project was designed to determine if a questionnaire given to newly married couples can determine the likelihood that they will eventually divorce, this would be an example of what type of evidence?

Explain the meaning of measurement.

Achievement tests are used to predict success in graduate and professional schools

A test that is internally consistent is also said to be:

Which of the following is a form of internal consistency reliability?

Coefficient alpha tells you the degree to which the items on a test are interrelated.

Explain the characteristics of each of the methods for computing reliability.

Explain the different scales of measurement, including the type of information communicated by each one.

Aptitude tests measure how well people have learned what they have been taught.

Validity evidence based on the relationship between test scores and criterion scores obtained at the same time is known as: