Exam 6: Selecting Measurement Instruments

The local school district administers two different writing assessments. One requires learners to identify errors in examples and answer them objectively. The second requires the learners to write an essay. Of the following which is likely true regarding these assessments?

A recent study reported about a new instrument that measures students' motivation for challenging academic tasks. In the study the instrument had been given to a number of children at the beginning of their academic year. After reading the study, Susan wondered if students' responses would be different at the end of the academic year. She decides to conduct a study that administers the instrument several times over the course of an academic year and measures the correlation across administrations. Susan has addressed a concern with which of the following types of reliability?

Gwen is conducting a study on mathematics skills. She is interested in a test that measures computation of basic algebra. She found one with a reported KR-20 of .34. What is one conclusion Gwen can make regarding the test as a measure of algebra skills?

Hanna is conducting a problem-solving study that relates learners' motivation to number of challenging problems attempted. She defines motivation as self-efficacy. She uses a self-report instrument to measure self-efficacy. Hanna has operationalized which of the following variables?

Michael left the Physics final and complained. The content on the cumulative final only covered about one quarter of the Physics concepts for the course. Michael is questioning the _____________ validity of the test.

Which of the following illustrates norm-referenced scoring?

Of the following, which is considered an affective measurement?

Some individual differences, such as cultural differences for example, may distort information obtained from an assessment. This is referred to as

Assessments administered to all children at varying levels in their schooling are designed to be

Given the following research question: "Are there differences in individual student achievement scores in advanced science classes between classes where students sit in the lecture style seating and those where students sit in cluster seating?" What type of variable does type of classroom represent?

Sam is a psychology researcher interested in personality differences between university faculty who do and do not include computer-assisted technology in their class lectures. He groups the faculty based upon use of computer-assisted technology, and he administers a 13-item Likert scale personality assessment. Which of the following would best classify this personality measure?

Political party affiliation is considered __________ level data.

Robert scored an 87 on a recent mathematics placement test. John scored an 86. The standard error of measurement of the test is 4. What can we conclude about the two students' actual measures?

Generally projective tests, but not achievement tests, are administered

Given a 50 item multiple-choice test with a mean of 30, standard deviation of 4, and a reliability coefficient of .84, calculate the Standard Error of Measurement.

The relationship between reliability and SE_m is that

The type of validity that focuses on the extent to which the test relates to future performance is referred to as _________ validity.

Gender is considered a(n) ___________ level variable.

Cronbach's alpha and split-half reliability are both measures of

Dan is a researcher interested in self-esteem. He develops an instrument that he administers to 500 middle school learners. He calculates a self-esteem score for each child in the study and then groups the students as low, medium, or high self-esteem. The instrument illustrates what type of assessment?