Psychological Tests Quiz

What is one informal goal shared by all psychological tests?

• to make certain that tests are valid

• to help an individual plan his or her future

• to determine if the test taker has any psychological disorders

• to find out a great deal about a person in a short time

What are the three factors in determining a test’s fairness and usefulness?

• standardization, percentile, reliability

• standardization, reliability, validity

• percentile, reliability, validity

• standardization, percentile, validity

A test has been shown to be able to determine whether or not individuals will make good engineers. What does this test have?

• validity

• standardization

• reliability

• validation

A test has 100 questions. The first 50 are scored separately from the second 50. The two scores are approximately the same. What kind of reliability does this test have?

• standardized

• interscorer

• test-retest

• split-half

Two teachers grade the same test and assign the same score. What kind of reliability does this test have?

• standardized

• interscorer

• test-retest

• split-half

When creating a test using proper standardized norms, what would most likely be done first?

• A. Interscorer reliability must be determined.

• B. Percentiles must be established on the basis of the scores achieved by a representative group.

• C. The test must be given to a large representative sample of the group being measured.

• D. The test items must be divided in half and each half scored independently.

In what ways must a test be standardized?

• A. by the way in which it is administered and scored and by the establishment of norms

• B. by the way in which it is administered and scored and by test-retest reliability

• C. by test-retest reliability and by the establishment of norms

• D. by interscorer reliability and by the establishment of norms

Which of these situations could affect test-retest reliability?

• A. One teacher scores a test the first time it is taken and a second teacher scores it the second time.

• B. The first time a student takes a test she is well-rested and the second time she is very tired.

• C. The questions in the first half of the test are much more difficult than those in the second half.

• D. The test is not predictive.

A fifth-grader gets a score of 60 out of 100 on a science test. What information would be most helpful in making this information useful?

• A. Knowing whether the test is valid.

• B. Knowing whether the student would get a similar score if she retook the test.

• C. Knowing whether there is interscorer reliability.

• D. Knowing how this score compares to the scores of other students who took the test.

When percentiles are established based on the scores of a large representative sample, the percentiles are called the test’s

• A. reliability.

• B. raw scores.

• C. norms.

• D. content validity.