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

High school class rank is highly correlated with college GPA. This is an example of what type of validity?

What are the four levels of measurement?

If you want to know that a test measures some underlying psychological construct, what type of validity evidence would you want to collect?

What are the scales of measurement?

Interrater reliability is an example of which of the following?

How does interrater reliability measure consistency?

What is the difference between reliability and validity?

If I can say that my weekly statistics quiz fairly assesses the material covered, what source of validity evidence should I have collected?

Which coefficient reflects the occurrence of perfect reliability?

What type of validity is concerned with the adequate representation of test items?

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

Parallel forms reliability is an example of which of the following?

A score that you would actually record is an example of which of the following?

If the measures associated with a test are said to be consistent, you might conclude that the measure is which of the following?

Which level of measurement provides the most information about a variable?

Two trained professionals observe the behavior of children in a classroom. They each rate observed behaviors using the same form, and the number of items that were rated the same is calculated. This is an example of which type of reliability?

If in the underlying continuum we are measuring assumed equal intervals, at what level of measurement is the associated variable being measured?

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

Explain the classical test theory formula for understanding observed scores. What is included in any observed score?

What is the key to establishing criterion validity?