Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement

What is the term used in conjunction with the meaningfulness of a test score?

• Consistency

• Accuracy

• Validity

• Reliability

What is the judgment or estimate of how well a test measures what it purports to measure in a particular context?

• Reliability

• Accuracy

• Consistency

• Validity

What is the process of gathering and evaluating evidence about validity called?

• Authentication

• Validation

• Verification

• Confirmation

What is the term used to describe a judgment of how adequately a test samples behavior representative of the universe of behavior that the test was designed to sample?

• Content Validity

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Face Validity

• Construct Validity

What is an index of the degree to which a test score is related to some criterion measure obtained at the same time?

• Content Validity

• Predictive Validity

• Concurrent Validity

• Construct Validity

What is an index of the degree to which a test score predicts some criterion measure?

• Construct Validity

• Concurrent Validity

• Predictive Validity

• Content Validity

What is the standard against which a test or a test score is evaluated?

• Criterion

• Guideline

• Benchmark

• Reference

What is the term used to describe a judgment concerning how relevant the test items appear to be to the person being tested?

• Criterion-Related Validity

• Construct Validity

• Face Validity

• Content Validity

What is the term used to describe the measurement of content validity?

• Validation Ratio

• Reliability Ratio

• Content Validity Ratio

• Accuracy Ratio

What is the term used to describe the process of gauging agreement among raters or judges regarding how essential a particular item is?

• Content Agreement

• Content Validity Ratio

• Validity Agreement

• Reliability Agreement