Question 1

According to Brotto and Yule,their new measure of asexuality performed satisfactorily on

Accepted Answer

A)  a measure of incremental validity. 
B)  a measure of convergent validity. 
C)  a measure of discriminant validity. 
D)  All of these

Question 2

It is needed to calculate the item-validity index.It is

Accepted Answer

A)  the point-biserial correlation between the item score and the criterion score. 
B)  the mean of the item-score distribution. 
C)  the item-score standard deviation. 
D)  All of these

Question 3

Which is an example of the use of a completion format on a test?

Accepted Answer

A)  true-false items 
B)  matching items 
C)  short-answer items 
D)  multiple-choice item

Question 4

If all raw scores on a test are to be converted to scores that range only from 1 to 9,the resulting scale is referred to as this type of scale:

Accepted Answer

A)  a unidimensional scale. 
B)  a stanine scale. 
C)  a multidimensional scale. 
D)  None of these.

Question 5

In his article entitled "A Method of Scaling Psychological and Educational Tests," L.L.Thurstone introduced absolute scaling which was a

Accepted Answer

A)  procedure for obtaining a measure of item validity. 
B)  procedure for obtaining a measure of item difficulty. 
C)  procedure for deriving equal-appearing intervals. 
D)  procedure for divining item reliability.

Question 6

In a cumulative model of scoring applied to an ability test

Accepted Answer

A)  the higher the total score, the higher the testtaker is on the ability measured by the test. 
B)  the pattern of responses is critically important when judging the ability of the testtaker. 
C)  comparisons of the testtaker's performance on tests tapping similar abilities may easily be made. 
D)  All of these

Question 7

Many asexual individuals refer to themselves as

Accepted Answer

A)  "selfies". 
B)  "ace". 
C)  "lone rangers". 
D)  "gender-neutral".

Question 8

Ideally,psychological or educational tests are revised

Accepted Answer

A)  every decade. 
B)  when the test is no longer useful. 
C)  as a function of annual test sales. 
D)  None of these

Question 9

Item analysis is conducted to evaluate

Accepted Answer

A)  item reliability. 
B)  item validity. 
C)  item difficulty. 
D)  All of these

Question 10

Item branching refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  administering certain test items on a test depending on the testtakers' responses to previous test items. 
B)  the creation of alternate and parallel forms of tests based on a group of testtakers' responses to the original test. 
C)  statistical efforts to ensure that items translated into foreign languages are of the same difficulty. 
D)  re-using items in an original test that were originally developed for use in a parallel test.

Question 11

Most classroom tests developed by instructors for use in their own classroom are

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A)  subjected to formal procedures of psychometric evaluation. 
B)  only evaluated formally for content validity. 
C)  evaluated informally for their psychometric properties. 
D)  used without modification, year after year, until retirement or death.

Question 12

Test item writers must keep many considerations in mind.Which of the following is NOT typically one of those considerations?

Accepted Answer

A)  Will the test be administered by an instructor or a teaching assistant? 
B)  Which item format or formats should be employed? 
C)  How many items should be written in total? 
D)  What range of content should the items cover?

Question 13

In order to determine whether their new measure of asexuality was useful over and above already-available measures of sexual orientation,Brotto and Yule compared it to a previously established measure of sexual orientation called the

Accepted Answer

A)  Sexual Desire Inventory. 
B)  Solitary Desire subscale of the Sexual Desire Inventory. 
C)  Abernathy Measure of Sexual Orientation. 
D)  Klein Scale.

Question 14

According to your textbook,the minimum sample for a test tryout is

Accepted Answer

A)  one-half of the number of testtakers in the standardization sample. 
B)  25 testtakers. 
C)  50 testtakers. 
D)  500 testtakers.

Question 15

When writing items for a test,a test developer would be well advised to incorporate

Accepted Answer

A)  knowledge acquired from Cohen & Swerdlik (2017). 
B)  knowledge from information supplied in scholarly journals. 
C)  interviews with experts. 
D)  All of these

Question 16

An item-characteristic curve

Accepted Answer

A)  is the single best index of guessing a test user has. 
B)  plots the reliability and the validity of the item. 
C)  Both is the single best index of guessing a test user has and plots the reliability and the validity of the item. 
D)  None of these

Question 17

An item-discrimination index typically compares

Accepted Answer

A)  high scorers' performances with low scorers' performances on a particular item. 
B)  medium scorers' performances with low and high scorers' performances on a particular item. 
C)  low scorers' performances with lower scorers' performances on a particular item. 
D)  one group of scorers' performances on the item with any other groups of scorers' performances on the same item.

Question 18

One of the questions that the developer of a new test must answer is,"How will the test be administered?" The answer to this question may be

Accepted Answer

A)  the test will be individually administered. 
B)  the test will be group administered. 
C)  the test will be individually or group administered. 
D)  None of these

Exam 8: Test Development