Assessment Exam Review Chapter 5

Scores that are used to evaluate one’s relative performance are called ______.

As the standard error of measurement increases, what do we know about reliability?

A percentile rank tells us little about ______.

The emphasis placed on criterion-reference tests is that associated with ______.

What does the acronym SEM mean?

We want to examine a point in a distribution of scores below which other scores fall. Which would we use?

If you are evaluating students’ scores based on a predefined level of performance, what type of scores are you using?

Raw scores have no meaning about performance by themselves because ______.

What type of test defines a specific level of performance (or mastery) of some content domain?

What does a percentile score of 85 tell us about an individual?

What do we call the set of scores that divide the distribution into nine equal segments?

Reliability, validity, and scoring refer to what qualities of tests?

The standard error of measurement can be defined as ______.

When we want to evaluate performance relative to others in a graduating class, which of the following would we use?

Stanine scores are particularly useful because of what quality?

Norms are developed by administering a test ______.

The score you observe or the untransformed score would be considered which of the following?