Exam 5: Validity

Establishing the relationship between performance on the test and on some other indicator of the construct of interest is the essential feature of ___.

Which of these types of validity evidence emerged most recently in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing?

The essential difference between concurrent and predictive validity relates to the _____ relationship between test and criterion performance.

An expectancy table is a specific application of ____ validity.

The multitrait-multimethod matrix is most useful in illustrating ___.

A test's sensitivity refers to the extent to which the test ___.

Cases that exceed the test cut-off score but fail on the criterion are called ___.

The essential feature of criterion-related validity is establishing the relationship between performance on a test and performance on _____.

When applying the concepts of sensitivity and specificity, we would like to have a test that displays ___.

When criterion contamination occurs, the correlation between test and criterion will ordinarily ___.

What statistic would ordinarily be used to show that a college admissions test predicts freshman year GPA?

In the terminology of decision theory as applied to test validity, a case that has the same status on the test as on the criterion is called a ___.

The technical term for the limit placed on validity by imperfect reliability is ___.

Which of the following is NOT a common approach to criterion-related validity? The use of ___.

A crucial technique for determining incremental validity is ___.

When applying the concepts of hits, false positives, and false negatives, what will be true when the correlation between the test and criterion is zero?

We want to predict success as a salesperson (the criterion) from a combination of a mental ability test, a personality test, and a rating from an interview. This sounds like an ideal opportunity to use ___.

A test's specificity refers to the extent to which the test ___.

Instructional validity refers to whether test content _____.

Consider this statement: The Scranton Anxiety Test and the Scranton Depression Test must be measuring different constructs because one names 'anxiety' and the other names 'depression' as their target constructs." This statement is an example of ___.