Exam 1: The World of Testing

Computer programs that try to simulate human judgment in scoring responses to test items, such as essays, are technically known as _____

A period of judicial and legal activism, that is, the treatment of tests in court cases and legislation, emerged during what period in the history of testing?

Which is NOT one of the major categories of test usage identified in the text?

Which is one of the crucial assumptions we make in the field of testing?

Very early (e.g., around 200 BC) versions of civil service examinations have been found in what culture?

Who is credited with creating the first intelligence test for practical use?

What event provided the context for the first large-scale application of a group administered mental ability test?

One of the influences of managed care on psychological testing is use of ___.

The text notes that "whatever the psychologist does in practice should be based on sound evidence." This notion is encapsulated in the term _________

The textbook contrasts "norm-referenced" tests with ________ tests.

Which is NOT one of the major categories of tests used by the textbook to organize the field of psychological testing?

The textbook contrasts "speed" tests with ________ tests.

Who is credited with inventing the bivariate distribution?

What period of time does the textbook identify as "the flowering," during which many of the tests widely used today first appeared?

A principal concern of authors creating the "new-type" achievement tests was to make tests that were -

When we refer to "machine-scored answer sheets" for tests, what device do we actually put the answer sheets into?

We interpret someone's performance on a test in terms of how other people have performed on the test. Other people's performance is the basis for the test's ____.

Which was a prototype of today's objective personality tests that was used to help screen recruits into the U. S. military for World War I?

Binet's early work on measuring intelligence was undertaken in connection with the needs of -

In computer-adaptive testing, items are selected for presentation to an examinee based on -