What answer choice best describes the concept of validity?

• How well a test measures what it is supposed to measure.

• The quality of a test which produces scores that are not affected much by chance.

• It is how one knows that a math test measures students' math ability, and their reading ability.

Who formulated the concept of validity?

• Milgram (1963)

• Becker (2002)

• Kelly (1927)

• Hofling (1988)

This type of validit is subjective because it depends on how people perceive and see a certain test.

• Content

• Construct

• Face

• Predictive

A school principal decides to begin implementing a new test of achievement in ninth-grade mathematics. However, to ensure that this test is an adequate representation of the material taught in nine-grade mathematics courses, the principals asks the math teachers to take a look at the test and provide some feedback. They tell him that several concepts taught in their courses are ignored in the test, and others are present which are not in their courses.

What type of validity is being evaluated?

• content

• construct

• face

• concurrent

It measures how well the results of a new test agrees with the results of a tested, established or validated instruments.

• content

• construct

• criterion

• face

A guidance counselor uses a vocational/occupational test to help students determine the type of occupation for which they would be best suited.

What type of validity is most important with this test of test?

• concurrent

• construct

• face

• predictive

If a test has representative samples of language skills it claims to measure, has proper samples of relevant structures, and the content matches the instructional objectives, then the test has good ______ validity.

• content

• construct

• face

• predictive

A researcher develops a new measure of verbal acuity. The researcher finds that scores from this verbal acuity instrument correlate as expected with scores from a number of other variables thought to be related to verbal acuity (e.g., intelligence, creativity, self-confidence).

Based on the evidence she provides, what type of validity does she claim??

• Internal Validity

• External Validity

• Concurrent Validity

• Construct Validity

It measures how well a particular test correlates with a previously validated test when both were collected at approximately the same time.

• Concurrent Validity

• Construct Validity

• Predictive Validity

• Convergent Validity

The extent to which your measure corresponds to measures of related constructs

• Convergent Validity

• Discriminant Validity

• Internal Validity

•   External Validity