Exam 6: Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity

If a researcher examined the effect of different reading programs on comprehension, the dependent variable was ______.

Which of the following is NOT a measure of reliability?

Who is responsible for creating the formula for coefficient alpha?

For high reliability, you want to reliability coefficients to be positive and as close as possible to 1.

_______ is the score that you would receive if the test contained no error.

"A measure of how stable a test is over time" is an example of which of the following types of reliability?

_______ explore(s) the question, "How do I know that the test, scale, instrument, etc.I use measures what it is supposed to?"

It is true-men who participate in body contact sports score higher on the TEST (osterone) test of aggression.This is an example of which type of validity?

The _______ is the difference between the observed and true scores.

What are the traditional types of validity?

What is the difference between the true score and the observed score?

If you correlate scores from your test with some other valid measure that assesses the same set of abilities, what type of validity evidence are you collecting?

What is the key to establishing criterion validity?

If a researcher examined how comprehension affected test scores, the independent variable was ______.

Which coefficient reflects the occurrence of perfect reliability?

Name four types of reliability and what they measure.

The correlation between two forms of the same test is called _______.

Criterion validity assesses whether a test reflects a set of abilities in a future setting.

Which of the following is concerned with monitoring estimates of future performance?

If you want to know whether there is consistency in the rating of some outcome, what type of reliability do you use?