Exam 8: Test Development

On a true/false inventory,a respondent selects true for an item that reads,"I summer in Tehran." The individual scoring the test would BEST interpret this response as indicative of the fact that this respondent

A test developer of multiple-choice ability tests reviews data from a recent test administration.She discovers that testtakers who scored very high on the test as a whole,all responded to item 13 with the same incorrect choice.Accordingly,the test developer

Multiple-choice items draw primarily on which testtaker ability?

These tests are often used for the purpose of licensing persons in professions.The tests referred to here are

Item-discrimination indexes can range from

An ADVANTAGE of applying item response theory (IRT)in test development is that

On the item characteristic curves for a test of ability,a large number of items biased in favor of male testtakers is found to coexist with the exact same number of items biased in favor of female testtakers.Based on these findings,it would be reasonable for the test developer to claim that the test

Expert panels may be used in the process of test development to

Which scaling method entails a process by which measures of item difficulty are obtained from samples of testtakers who vary in ability?

Possible applications of IRT were discussed in your textbook.Which of the following is NOT one of those possible applications?

A sensitivity review panel would most likely be made up of

Co-validation is:

Likert scales measure attitudes using continuums.A continuum of items measuring ___________ could be used for a Likert scale.

Brotto and Yule established the discriminant validity of their measure of asexuality by comparing scores on it with scores on

Test scores measuring latent traits can,in theory at least,take on values ranging from

One of the advantages of computerized adaptive testing (CAT)is that

Computer-adaptive testing has been found to

It is an online community of asexual individuals which has become a source of recruitment of subjects for asexuality research.It is called the

Which is TRUE with regard to latent-trait models?

A close friend,who is now a beauty school dropout,is heard to complain: "I spent all night studying 'Shampoo' for the final examination and there was not a single question on that subject!" As a budding expert in testing and assessment you hear that complaint as: