Exam 10: Test Administration and Interpretation

Choosing a 20-yd dash to measure speed is an example of face validity.

What is the range of Z scores?

A 6-ft, 3-in., 245-lb high school football defensive lineman has the following physical test scores: bench press, 250 lb; squat, 130 lb; 40-yd dash, 5.4 s; seated 4-lb medicine ball push, 21 ft, mile run, 6 min 33 s. The area he needs the MOST work in is:

As a new strength coach at a college, you are given the data for the 1-RM bench press, squat, and dead lift for the team by position for the last 10 years. Discuss how you might use these data as a performance analysis tool with the current players.

A criterion measurement scale is a postmeasurement scale that compares the athlete's scores with the scores of a peer group.

In a coaches' meeting, there is a discussion of the frequency of testing for a high school football team. One coach suggests three testing dates per year, a pretest just prior to preseason practice, 6 weeks prior to the first game, and 2 weeks after the season prior to the off-season program. Another coach wants more frequent monthly testing. Discuss your opinion on these two divergent views. How would you arrange the testing schedule?

Multiple scorers timing a 100-m dash should give the same runner the same score. The relationship between these scores is a measure of _____________.

A standardized score where the mean is set to 50 with scores over 50 representing individuals scoring above the mean and scores below 50 representing individuals scoring below the mean is called a _____________.

A colleague of yours has just developed a new assessment tool to measure body fat. She has come to you for assistance in determining the validity and reliability of the new tool. What would you do to accomplish this? How are the two different?

If the plotted scores from a test represent a bell-shaped curve, then approximately ______ of the scores fall within plus or minus one standard deviation of the mean.

A test may be reliable but not valid, but a valid test will be reliable.

Bad test data are worse that no test data because they can lead to inappropriate choices in terms of the exercise prescription.

A female basketball player has the following test results: 1-RM bench press, 150 lb; sit-ups, 60; push-ups, 45; vertical jump, 12 in.; 20-yd dash, 2.8 s.; mile run, 5 min 22 s. The area she needs to focus on the MOST is:

The ability of a test to repeat the same score in a retest situation without training or other intervention is referred to as validity.

In the testing of athletes who will be compared to each other, motivation should

Validity is typically measured relative to a known true measure that represents a _________________________.

The standard deviation of a set of scores describes the ________________ of that data set.

A group of individuals who share a common characteristic is termed a ______________.

Safety in testing is of extreme importance. Discuss some steps that you, as a conditioning professional, should take to ensure the safety of the participants in performance tests.

A graduate student wants to measure the bench-press strength of a class. She tested each person and obtained the following data set: 100, 120, 121.5, 180, 175, 165, 225, 220.5, 245, 175. Discuss the process of collecting these data. Include a discussion of validity and reliability and obtaining the mean, median, and mode of the data set.