WorksheetsPsych Assessment-LL-Midterm Exam
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 10mins
When answering tests, test takers may vary in the following variables EXCEPT?
Physical or emotional disturbances experienced
Capacity and willingness to cooperate with assessor
Degree of agreement in the inclusion of test items
Extent to which they are "lucky" or can "beat the odds"
Individually-administered intelligence tests and projective tests are which level of tests?
Level A
Level B
Level C
Level D
This is a method of determining reliability wherein the same test will be administered at different points in time.
Inter-scorer reliability
Alternate form reliability
Split-half reliability
Test-retest reliability
When correcting for the reliability of a test that has been split in half, with both halves having equal variances, which statistical tool is used?
Spearman-Brown coefficient
Coefficient alpha
Pearson r
KR20
When talking about the relationship between validity and reliability, all statements are true EXCEPT:
A test can be valid but not reliable
A test cannot be valid but not reliable
A test can be reliable but not valid
A test can both be reliable and valid
When a test highly correlates with another test that claims to measure the same or a similar construct, then the test is said to have high:
Convergent validity
Discriminant validity
Predictive validity
Concurrent validity
When you want to know how a student's college entrance exam test score will predict the chances of success in a particular program, you are actually asking about the test's:
Content validity
Concurrent validity
Discriminant validity
Predictive validity
Students of a certain program randomly handed out a teacher popularity survey to the people who enter the library. This research method is called:
Random sampling
Stratified random sampling
Convenience sampling
Purposive sampling
The degree to which findings from one test may be applicable to another situation is called the test's:
utility
reliability
generalizability
concurrent validity
A study aims to determine the relationship between college GPA and scores in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)-IV. In order to determine the strength of this relationship, we use which statistical tool?
t-test
Spearman rho coefficient
Pearson r
ANOVA
Choosing participants for a study in such a way that all of them have equal chances of being chosen is called:
Random sampling
Random assignment
Convenience sampling
Purposive sampling
When is it appropriate to use the Spearman rho correlation coefficient?
When dealing with nominal data
When dealing with normal data
When dealing with parametric data
When dealing with ordinal data
Which statistical tool is used only for calculating the internal consistency of a test in which items are dichotomous, scored 1 or 0 for right or wrong?
Spearman-Brown coefficient
Coefficient alpha
Pearson r
KR20
Respondents would most likely answer a test to the best of their abilities is the test appears to be related to the construct being measured. This is the test's:
Concurrent validity
Convergent validity
Content validity
Face validity
Gellie appears to be depressed. The results of battery of tests that measure depression reveal that she met the criteria for a major depressive episode. Based on the decision theory, this is considered a:
hit
error
False positive
False negative
Psychometricians can administer up to which level of tests?
Level A
Level B
Level C
Level D
A test's reliability is the degree to which:
It correlates highly with established test
It is able to predict future performance or behavior
It yields consistent results
It describes present behavior and mental states
Which of the following validity measures is non-statistical?
Predictive validity
Concurrent validity
Construct validity
Face validity
Board exams, driving exams and other licensure exams usually use a:
Criterion-Referenced Approach
Norm-Referenced Approach
Characteristic Approach
Classical Trait Approach
This is considered as the "umbrella" validity because evidences gathered in this validity covers all the other types of validity:
Content validity
Construct validity
Predictive validity
Concurrent validity
Criterion-referenced tests:
Have also been referred to as domain-referenced tests
Have also been referred to as content-referenced tests
Have criteria derived from the standards of the test developer
All of the choices
Among school aged children, as age increases, so do reading skills. This is an example of:
a positive correlation
cannot determine based on the information presented
a zero correlation
a negative correlation
Raw scores may be converted to norms:
so that scores from members of different groups may be evaluated fairly
so that the scores are more easily interpreted and communicated to others
all of the answers
none of the answers
Which of the following is true of age norms? Age norms enjoy wide acceptance:
psychological, but not physical characteristics
in the teen years, but decline in popularity with age
for physical, but not psychological characteristics
for both physical and psychological characteristics
National anchor norms allow for comparisons between:
several students taking the same test
one student and a national sample of others taking the same test
a student's scores on a battery of tests as compared to a national sample who took the same battery
a high school senior and graduates of the Philippine Military Academy
