Exam 6: Selecting Measurement Instruments

Maya recently conducted a survey to ask community members about whether they would like the town to invest money into widening roads to accommodate a bicycle lane. Her survey included the following 5 questions. 1. Do you live in Healthy Township? Y_______ N_______ 2. Do you own a bicycle? Y_______ N _______ 3. How many miles a week do you drive your car? a. 0-15 b. 15-30 c. 30-45 d. 45-60 e. Greater than 60 Given the following scale answer questions 4 and 5. 1=Strongly Disagree, 2=Disagree, 3 =Neutral, 4=Agree, 5=Strongly Agree 4. I would ride my bike to work if there was a bike lane. 1 2 3 4 5 5. I believe we should widen the roads to accommodate a bike lane. 1 2 3 4 5 -Given the above survey, Item 4 data would represent _______level data.

Of the following which illustrates criterion-referenced scoring?

Jianan is conducting a thesis study that relates learners' working memory to speed in algebraic problem solving. She measures working memory by a digit span task. She uses a researcher created test to measure problem solving. She will also collect demographic data and measure beliefs and attitudes about science. -Jianan operationalized which of the following variables?

Performance assessments include

Matilda is interested in number of books read by each of the third grade children in her school district during the academic year. She believes that there may be differences in the number of books read by classroom and by school and she thinks there is a positive relationship between number of books read and reading achievement as measured on the standardized assessment given at the end of the year. -In Matilda's study the variable 'classroom' would be considered an) ___________ level variable.

Hanna has operationalized which of the following variables?

Jonah has developed a new scale to measure tolerance of software engineers during technology renovations. He selects a sample of software engineers and administers the draft instrument to them and calculated a KR 20 of .45. Given what you know about this type of measurement, please answer the following questions. -The type of instrument that Jonah developed is referred to as

In a semantic differential scale a neutral response is recorded as a

Selection methods of assessment include

The type of instrument that examines our values is classified as an)

The required information needed in order to compute KR-21 includes

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?

Sal recently took an instrument that asked him to rate his opinions about the effectiveness of different instructional practices as 'Strongly Agree', 'Agree', 'Uncertain', 'Disagree', 'Strongly Disagree'. This instrument is using a

Recently, many lawmakers have been advocating for assessments to be administered to all children at varying levels in their schooling. -These types of assessments are used as __________ assessments

Political party affiliation is considered __________ level data.

Projective tests are an example of

Jonah has developed a new scale to measure tolerance of software engineers during technology renovations. He selects a sample of software engineers and administers the draft instrument to them and calculated a KR 20 of .45. Given what you know about this type of measurement, please answer the following questions. -Given the KR 20 value, which can you conclude about this instrument?

Given a 50 item multiple-choice test with a mean of 30,standard deviation of 4, and a reliability coefficient of .80, calculate the Standard Error of Measurement.

Gary is a researcher interested in self-esteem. He develops an instrument he names the "I am great questionnaire." He administers the survey and collects information from 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. Given this scenario please answer the following questions. -The information that Gary collects from the learners is referred to

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